#surgery

She was fighting breast cancer the last time her son won a championship.

What’s actually been gnawing at me since my last post like this six months ago is something completely different—relationships.

Lung tumors were detected at an early stage after the justice broke her ribs in a fall.

ORR, PFS, TTP…we help you sort out what they mean.

I let out a deep breath I didn’t even know I was holding.

Scientists are preparing to bring DNA-editing tools to the clinic.

Despite being in pain, I am still doing what I can to heal. I am so thankful for my body and all that is has been through.

I have felt beyond safe, loved for and cared about at Sloan — every visit, every procedure, every follow-up.

Today, instead of volunteering at my kids’ school for Halloween, I am at Sloan for my pre-op testing and meeting with the surgeon.

It’s been two years since I last had two testicles — but it’s much better this way.

When each day ends, I am hopefully one step closer to defect recovery. But each day that goes by erases one from my foreshortened life.

A new area of research is examining the use of checkpoint inhibitors before surgery, a practice known as neoadjuvant therapy.

The song’s striving to connect with a distant someone reminds me powerfully of my own relentless struggle to find a doctor who might help me

Ken Brown, a pancreatic cancer survivor for five years, hiked the world’s tallest freestanding mountain with his cancer surgeon.

Early surgery could reduce malignancy and infertility in adulthood.

Some experts question why women who are fragile and advanced in years are screened for breast cancer.