Radical prostatectomy is a surgical procedure usually performed on men who develop prostate cancer in their 60s or 70s. Adam Borland, PsyD, was 47 years...
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Coping with a Cancer Diagnosis
If you’ve just received upsetting diagnosis news—perhaps cancer, an autoimmune disease or another frightening health condition—it’s perfectly normal to cycle through shock, anxiety, anger and...
Pancreatic Cancer
It’s never easy to hear you have cancer, but a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer can be especially daunting. Once diagnosed with the disease, only about...
CAR T Cells: A Living Drug to Fight Cancer
CAR T cells are normal white blood cells that have been genetically engineered in a laboratory to make them more effective cancer fighters. Using your...
Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers
Due to a long-lasting effort to reduce smoking in developed countries, rates of tobacco smoking have continued to drop for decades. It is now unusual...
How COVID Could Change Cancer Treatment
During the COVID-19 pandemic, oncologists noticed something strange. Some people with cancer who developed severe COVID infections showed an unexpected side effect: Their cancer appeared...
The State of Liquid Biopsy
When liquid biopsy was first introduced in 2010, it was hailed as a revolutionary way to guide cancer treatment. Now, 14 years later, liquid biopsy...
Good News About Breast Cancer
The National Cancer Institute recently reported that even though the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer has been going up since 2010, the number...
Are Cancer Screenings Really Worth It?
Colonoscopies…mammograms…PSA tests…lung cancer screenings—sometimes it seems that every doctor appointment includes a recommendation for some sort of cancer screening. Few patients question this—getting screened for...
Alert: New Mammography Screening Guidelines
Earlier this year, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent, national volunteer group of experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine, updated its...
Cervical Cancer Affects Older Women, Too
Women in their mid-60s and older often stop having cervical cancer screenings. That’s because most major medical organizations advise women to stop screening once they...
Big Breakthrough in Cancer Detection
Every year, more than 600,000 Americans die from cancer. But here’s an equally disturbing statistic—seven out of 10 of those deaths are from cancers that...
