#metastatic cancer

Findings show it’s possible to identify these patients in advance, helping them to focus on other effective clinical trials of treatments.

Alabama state pandemic guidance advises denying ventilators for use by people with metastatic cancer, AIDS and end-stage liver disease.

The approval will not only benefit current patients, but will also spur more research into the biology of other rare tumors.

Despite aid-in-dying laws, exercising that option is difficult in a country where most large hospital systems have deep religious ties.

Jill Cadman is a former patient advocate and educator living with HIV and Stage IV colon cancer.

Researchers hope these studies will provide new insights into ways of blocking the early stages of metastasis.

Predicting who is likely or unlikely to respond to checkpoint inhibitors remains a focus for researchers.

Targeted therapies and immunotherapies may be effective against the bone metastases that grow from primary prostate cancers.

“What the study means, and what we show, is that location or income should not hinder the use of these [drugs].”

Life is capricious — our plans go awry, our way is confounded, our destiny indeterminate. And yet, we go on because we choose to.

For decades, researchers have sought to better understand the mechanisms that govern metastasis.

Centura Health Corp. fired a geriatrician who had planned to help a patient with terminal cancer legally end his life at his Colorado home.

The study’s findings open a window for very early detection of the disease and could help identify those who need more aggressive treatment.

A first-of-its-kind rapid autopsy program helps reveal the deadly disease’s potential vulnerabilities.

A 2016 study found that just 5% of cancer patients understood their prognoses well enough to make informed decisions about their care.

At times I feel like I’m flapping around in a panic, not really knowing what to do, wasting time worrying and not really achieving anything!