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Cancer and autoimmunity often create challenging circumstances for doctors and patients. In patients diagnosed with either disease, these two opposing forces may collide, further complicating treatments and side-effect management efforts.
January 09, 2018
But while patients with some types of common cancers are immunotherapy drugs, most patients with breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in the U.S., are still waiting.
2/13/2019 12:00 AM
Liver cancer incidence is on the rise. But lifestyle changes and new treatment options may help lower the risk.
2/7/2019 12:00 AM
Lung cancer remains the deadliest form of the disease. But new tools are being developed for early screening. Learn what else everyone should know about lung cancer.
1/30/2019 12:00 AM
Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapies are treatments like chemotherapy or hormone therapy that are delivered before or after the primary treatment, to help increase the treatment's chance of success and decrease the risk of recurrence.
1/23/2019 12:00 AM
“If you had stage IV melanoma before 2011, the median survival was about a year or less. Modern-day immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibitors is offering positive responses for many patients.” – Alan Tan, MD, Clinical Research Medical Director at our hospital near Phoenix. Read more.
1/16/2019 12:00 AM
Inhaling nicotine and other toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke, either firsthand as a smoker or secondhand as a non-smoker, may cause illnesses like heart disease, stroke and lung cancer. What isn’t as clearly understood is the effect of so-called “thirdhand smoke.”
1/9/2019 12:00 AM
What if doctors could not only find cancer-related DNA mutations, but repair them at a genetic level? That’s the theory behind CRISPR, a breakthrough technology in genetics that has generated scores of news headlines and sparked a buzz among scientists and doctors.
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