Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

metabolomics are poised to revolutionize breast cancer screening by enhancing diagnostic accuracy and reducing patient discomfort.

Treatments should really be given more selectively, i.e. “give this chemotherapy only to those people who will benefit from it,” She said.

I received a video from an episode of Americas Got Talent, the popular TV program that features up-and-coming performers.

Cancer patients approach their diagnosis with a sense of terror. One day they are fine and feeling well and the next, a terminal diagnosis.

Rising corporate influence and focus on reimbursement in medicine now discourage doctors from straying from strict treatment guidelines.

This patient had recurrent breast cancer that upon biopsy proved to be triple negative.

However, a new dilemma has arisen; the failure of surgeons to comply with Pancreatic Cancer patient’s wishes to have tissue submitted.

There has been talk of improved survival in cancer, most progress has reflected screening, early diagnosis, improved staging, and support.

One noteworthy case was a 78-year-old patient successfully treated without surgery.

Despite advances in breast cancer management, we must all recognize that every patient is unique and their treatments should be too.

A famous medical center recommended a treatment widely used for breast cancer, but not necessarily the best one for Stage 4 Triple-Negative.

With the explosion of immunotherapy in oncology, the checkpoint inhibitors (Pembrolizumab, Nivolumab, Ipililumab, etc.) are being used in...

Among Michelangelo's most famous sculptures are the 'Prisoners” that depict human forms awakening from their marble entrapment. The...

Of the one million new breast cancer patients diagnosed each year worldwide, approximately 170,000 of these cases are triple negative....

With the rapid rise of cancer, medical oncologists sometimes find themselves treating family members, friends or neighbors. In 2008, the...

In early September of 2018, I consulted with a 51-year-old patient with heavily pre-treated, extremely advanced metastatic breast cancer....

She had been diagnosed in December 2012 with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer and received appropriate and aggressive therapy.

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents a distinct form of breast cancer that does not express estrogen receptors (ER),...

An important trial result was reported for patients with advanced breast cancer. A total of 783 patients with stage IIIC/IV disease,...

Over the past decades oncologists have learned that cancer is driven by circuits known as signal transduction pathways. The first...