When a cancer patient receives the news that their cancer is in remission, it is joyous, celebratory news. However, being in remission is not the same thing as the cancer being gone, because there is always the chance, however slim, that the cancer could return. Until...
Chemotherapy is the leading cancer treatment, with about 650,000 cancer patients receiving chemotherapy treatment each year in the United States. Unfortunately, despite its life-saving potential, chemotherapy comes with some nasty side effects- most commonly nausea,...
Every time a new drug comes out claiming to be the next cure for cancer, it’s best to take the news with a grain of salt. The truth is, we have not arrived at a panacea for cancer and we are probably still a long way off. According to the National Cancer Institute,...
There are few things more terrifying for a woman than a breast cancer scare. A suspicious or “false positive” mammogram signaling to a woman that there’s a chance she could have a malignant tumor is traumatic enough that many studies have found that women follow their...
