News

Huddle boards-permanent bulletin boards that display daily status and improvement plans for a workgroup-are part of the Kaizen lean production method, a rapid improvement initiative designed for businesses.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society asked Ann McNeill, a registered nurse who has worked with cancer patients for 12 years, to share five healthy tips she and her colleagues often stress to patients.

There are many children whose stories inspire the work of Chase After a Cure. Following is just one of them-the story of McKenzie May.

Although use of robotic surgery for prostate cancer has surpassed open surgical procedures, the impact of this approach on patient quality of life has not been well-studied.

When the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine PSA screening for early detection of prostate cancer in May 2012, it caused a sea change in practice patterns among primary care physicians.

The financial costs associated with cancer are often overwhelming. Even having health insurance doesn't guarantee patients will be able to afford treatment.

The use of social media is now so widespread that professional healthcare organizations have developed guidelines for its use.

Finding treatment options, helping patients, and contributing to clinical research just got easier.

The addition of docetaxel to standard hormonal therapy significantly improved survival among men with newly diagnosed, hormone-naïve advanced prostate cancer.

Statin use before or after a diagnosis of lung cancer may be linked to a reduced risk of death from the disease, according to findings of a recent study which found that patients who used statins in the year before a lung cancer diagnosis had a statistically significant 12% reduction in lung cancer-specific deaths.

The month of May is Lung Cancer Hope Month, and here are just 5 reasons we can all be hopeful.

Risk of developing high-risk prostate cancer higher than control group.

E-cigarettes, championed by some as a smoking-cessation tool, may actually decrease the likelihood of quitting smoking, according to a recent population-based study of 1000 smokers published in The American Journal of Public Health.

Being recognized as a lung cancer advocate made me realize how important even the smallest role in this fight can be.

Ensuring that pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) is administered at the optimal time for the prevention of neutropenia and febrile neutropenia can pose a challenge for busy healthcare practitioners (HCPs).

Women who are at high risk of ovarian cancer are more likely to undergo preventive ovary removal if they are proactively offered genetic counseling, a new study has found.

Jacquelyn Lauria said she never thought she'd become an oncology nurse, but looking back, it's easy to see the writing on the wall.

Documentary film will be shown on May 6th at 150 theaters nationwide.

Treatment strategies for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes are built upon a foundation of supportive care, which consists of transfusions, iron chelation, and growth factor therapy.

Lynch syndrome (LS) is a hereditary syndrome that causes a marked increased risk of colorectal and other cancers. It is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means that it is due to a mutation in one copy of a gene (in LS, a DNA mismatch repair gene).

Omega-3 may be harmful when taken in conjunction with chemotherapy.

Being a caregiver in the ER is usually pretty awful. It feels like I'm always in the way.

Free online resource available.

Breast density, which is associated with breast cancer risk, is higher in black/African-American women than in white women, according to research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting.

Newly reported findings from a randomized phase III vaccine efficacy trial demonstrate that HPV vaccination may offer protection against HPV-related cancers across multiple tumor sites in women aged 18-25 who had been previously exposed to the human papillomavirus, with the vaccine effective in more than half of these women.

The PD-L1 inhibitor MPDL3280A demonstrated a 19% objective response rate (ORR) with 75% of responses ongoing in pretreated patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), according to findings from an ongoing phase I study presented at the 2015 AACR Annual Meeting.

A recent study joins a body of evidence suggesting that long-term, regular aspirin use is associated with a reduced risk for cancer, with the most dramatic reduction being seen in colorectal cancer incidence.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) had an overall response rate (ORR) of 45.2% among a cohort of patients with high PD-L1-expressing non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the phase I KEYNOTE-001 trial.