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This college admissions essay, penned by 17-year-old Samantha Stephens, offers a powerful and poignant reminder of the impact a cancer diagnosis can have on a patient's family and caregivers.

For patients receiving treatment for oral and head and neck cancer, maintaining adequate nutrition is an ongoing challenge.

When my late husband John and I started the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) in 2005, our goal was not only to raise awareness about bladder cancer, but to change the landscape for this disease by funding research to discover new treatments that will save lives.

The risk for pancreatic cancer dramatically decreases the longer a person takes low-dose aspirin

Meta-analysis finds more research is needed.

Tim Turnham, executive director, Melanoma Research Foundation, provides an overview of some of the services offered by the Melanoma Research Foundation.

Researchers from the nursing school at Case Western Reserve University have found caregivers of terminal cancer patients reported a high degree of satisfaction when they had a team available to them through difficult decisions and end-of-life treatment for their loved one.

Spending all day sitting on the couch to binge watch your favorite television show not only isn't great for your waistline, recent research suggests it could increase your risk for cancer.

Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) is a mainstay of treatment for prostate cancer in a number of settings, so managing its side effects is becoming increasingly important for urologists and oncology practitioners in collaboration with primary care physicians.

An approach using heat to alleviate the pain commonly associated with bone metastases has proven to be safe and effective in a multicenter phase III clinical trial, yielding a 64% response rate based on self-reported pain scores among patients receiving the noninvasive intervention.

Faculty from nursing education innovator will contribute unique perspective to OncLive's ongoing efforts to provide practical news and information for oncology professionals.

Data on electronic cigarette, or e-cigarettes, suggests that sales are up and it's predicted that e-cigarette sales will exceed cigarette sales in the next decade.

People infected with HIV who have also developed cancer are two to four times more likely to not receive treatment for their cancer compared to uninfected cancer patients,

Two recently published clinical studies demonstrated a strong association between higher levels of vitamin D and improved outcomes among patients with various cancers.

With the cost of cancer care ever rising, a team of cancer specialists at the University of Chicago has developed a tool to help measure a patient's risk for and ability to tolerate financial stress.

The results of two phase III trials reported at the 2014 MASCC/ISOO International Symposium on Supportive Care in Cancer have found that enobosarm, a first-in-class, nonsteroidal, oral selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), led to an increase in lean body mass (LBM) compared with a decline in LBM observed with placebo for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's leading philanthropic organization funding and accelerating prostate cancer research.

Adding the NK-1 receptor antagonist aprepitant to standard prophylaxis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) yielded significant benefits for the prevention of CINV in children

A treatment intended to control chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) that combines netupitant and palonosetron (NEPA) in a single capsule resulted in improved complete response rates (from 0 to 120 hours) when compared with oral palonosetron alone, according to research presented at the 2014 MASCC/ISOO International Symposium on Supportive Care in Cancer.

"AMEN" mnemonic may assist in sustaining hope.

The FDA has issued a drug safety communication regarding the risk of intoxication with the intravenous ethanol-containing chemotherapy docetaxel. The drug is marketed as generic docetaxel and under the brand names Taxotere, Docefrez, and Docetaxel Injection.

Receiving counseling from a genetic healthcare provider before genetic testing educates patients and may help reduce unnecessary procedures

The majority of women with breast cancer who undergo the recommended genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations and test positive prior to undergoing surgery will change their surgical plan to include a more extensive procedure, a new study reports.

Recent studies have established the link between a gastric ulcer and stomach cancer. A gastric or peptic ulcer is a sore that can develop on the walls of the stomach when the protective lining in our stomach stops working.

Cancer survivors (defined as people with a history of a cancer diagnosis) represent 4.6% of the U.S. population. The number of survivors is projected to increase at least 30% during the next ten years, and will likely reach 18 million people in the U.S.

The American Cancer Society has released new Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care guidelines that outline post treatment clinical follow-up care for the myriad of long-term and late effects.

A new study has shown that the risk of developing melanoma was more closely related to sun exposure in early life than in adulthood in young Caucasian women.

The program is a live, complementary, educational symposium held in conjunction with the 2014 Pan Pacific Lymphoma Conference