Cancer Blog
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For the over 22,000 women in the United States diagnosed each year with ovarian cancer outcomes have improved slowly, yet the majority of...

COLORECTAL CANCER is among the most common malignancies in the US with 95,000 colon and 39,000 rectal cancer cases estimated to occur in...

Among the most important topics of discussion at cancer meetings today is the cost of cancer care. Terms like “financial toxicity” are...

This blog article is written by Daniel King who is a content writer for The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com, an informational source...

Patients with a new diagnosis of cancer generally react with a myriad of questions. Is the diagnosis correct? How far advanced? Did I do...

Patients, newly diagnosed with cancer confront the news with dread. For many, the worst possible news is that “the cancer is inoperable.”...

The accelerating pace of scientific discovery, profusion of genetic advances and explosion of big data has led to a sense that the cure...

The accelerating pace of scientific discovery, profusion of genetic advances and explosion of big data has led to a sense that the cure...

With the growing interest in personalized medicine, many physicians and patients have come to equate personalized medicine with genomic...

One year ago, almost to the day, I was asked to see a very pleasant 67-year-old surgeon. He was personally referred by the radiologist...

There has been much written about the cost of cancer chemotherapy. In the US alone over 2.5 trillion dollars are spent on healthcare...

In September of 2013, I was asked to see a patient with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung. Treatment with Chemotherapy Biopsies did...

Cancer patients who seek our functional profiling EVA-PCD test frequently ask their doctors for assistance. Responses can vary. There is...

If you ask most patients, even their doctors, what medical oncologists do, they will tell you that they give chemotherapy. But is that...

I am often asked to see the family members of current and former patients, as one good outcome can beget another. A recent clinic had 3 different family members in a single afternoon, all for different problems, diagnosed at different times. One of my former patients with widely metastatic non-small cell lung cancer lived a miraculous 8 years, during which time I had the opportunity to meet and care for several of her friends and family members. The most recent of which prove

The discovery of the BRCA genes by Mary Claire King and Mark Skolnick in the 1990s provided immense insights. It explained familial...

Star Trek aficionados will remember Dr. Leonard H. McCoy played by DeForest Kelley who served as the original USS Enterprise ship...

Cancer immunotherapy, which uses the patient's immune system to eradicate disease, has been the subject of investigation for over a...

Ironically, many of the worst cancers prove to be the easiest to treat when new discoveries are made. Hairy cell leukemia, once the bane...

In February 2016, I met with a 57-year-old gentleman who presented with weight loss. An endoscopy revealed gastric (stomach) cancer. With...