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How Zydelig (Idelalisib) Treats Certain Blood Cancers
How this Targeted Therapy Treats Certain B Cell Blood Cancers Zydelig (Idelalisib) is an FDA approved cancer treatment for certain types of blood cancers that have relapsed. Unlike standard chemotherapy, Zydelig is considered [...]
About Multiple Myeloma Cancer
Muliple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that takes place within the plasma cells that are located within the bone marrow. When plasma cells are healthy, these plasma cells make special proteins called [...]
Xofigo a New Prostate Cancer Treatment
Xofigo ( or its generic trade name radium – 223 dicholoride ) is an FDA approved cancer drug treatment for patients who have a late stage prostate cancer that has spread to the patient’s bones, [...]
Keytruda a New Melanoma Cancer Treatment
Keytruda is a recent FDA approved skin cancer drug for the treatment for malignant melanoma. Developed by Merck, Keytruda is the trade name and it’s generic name is pembrolizumab. Keytruda is approved for the [...]
Understanding Immunotherapy Treatment
Understanding Immunotherapy Treatment Immunotherapy, sometimes referred to as biologic therapy, is a newer form of cancer treatment that works to boost the patient’s immune system to fight their cancer. The immune system is [...]
What are Clinical Trials?
Are Clinical Trials an Option for You? Cancer research is a very important step in helping us find a cure for cancer. One form of this research comes from conducting clinical trials, which [...]
What is Prostate Cancer?
What is Prostate Cancer? Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer for men, with skin cancer being the most common. While the disease is common, and only affects men, the [...]
What is Lymphoma Cancer?
Lymphoma is a blood cancer that originates within the infection fighting cells of the patient’s immune system. These cells are referred to as lymphocytes and they are a type of white blood cell [...]
Understanding Kidney Cancer and Treating It
Kidney cancer is sometimes referred to as renal cell carcinoma, which is its medical name. Renal derives from the Latin word “renalis”, which are the kidneys. Kidney cancer is considered one of ten most [...]
How Xgeva (Denosumab) Treats Bone Metastases
Xgeva Cancer Treatment for Bone Metastases Xgeva (Denosumab) is an FDA approved cancer treatment to help prevent fractures and other cancer related bone problems in adults who have advanced cancer that has metastasized, [...]
Lynparza a New Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Lynparza a New Ovarian Cancer Treatment Lynparza (olaparib) is a recently FDA approved targeted cancer treatment for certain types of advanced ovarian cancer associated with defective BRCA genes. Advanced cancer by definition means [...]
Staying Aware of Melanoma Cancer
What is Melanoma Each year over 76,000 patients will be diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer. Though melanoma is much less likely to be diagnosed than other types of skin cancers, such as basal [...]
How Promising Immunotherapy Darzalex Treats Multiple Myeloma Cancer
Darzalex Showing Promise as Multiple Myeloma Cancer Treatment Darzalex (Daratumumab) is a promising new immunotherapy cancer treatment for patients with multiple myeloma, which is currently the third most commonly diagnosed blood cancer in the [...]
Understanding Male Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is generally thought of as a disease that only affects women, but it’s not. Men can get breast cancer too. In the United States, roughly 1 percent of all breast cancer cases [...]
Hematology and Blood Cancer
Because a cancer diagnosis can be one of the most emotional times in a patient’s life, many patients are often overwhelmed as they initially gather information regarding their cancer. In regards to blood cancers [...]
What is Targeted Therapy for Cancer Treatment?
As cancer research continues to learn more about how gene changes in cells can cause cancer, this research is helping to introduce new types of cancer drugs. One form of cancer treatment that involves the use [...]
What is Ovarian Cancer?
While Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women, it’s also one of the most difficult to screen for early detection. Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth that may take place in [...]
How New Cancer Drug Imbruvica (Ibrutinib) Treats Blood and Lymph Node Cancers
Recent FDA approved cancer treatment Imbruvica (Ibrutinib) offers promise for treating certain types of blood cancer and lymph node cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma and Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. Imbruvica is a cancer [...]
You Are Not Alone in the Chemo Room
Bringing People Together in the Chemo Room The chemotherapy room, or chemo room, is a place where many cancer patients go to find medical treatment for their cancer. The chemo room is also [...]
How Breast Cancer Drug Ibrance Works
The new breast cancer drug Ibrance (palbociclib) is showing promise as a hormone based cancer treatment for advanced breast cancer. This new treatment is intended to help breast cancer patients who are post menopausal [...]
Hair Loss from Chemotherapy
Hair loss is a possible side effect that many patients may experience during their cancer treatment when undergoing chemotherapy treatment. This side effect depends mostly on the type of chemotherapy and the amount given. [...]
A Personal Decision – Breast Cancer Surgery
Which Breast Cancer Surgery is Right for You? Which surgery option is best for you? If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, it may be difficult to decide between having a mastectomy or [...]
Avastin – A Promising Treatment for Advanced Cancer
Clinical Trials Lung Cancer Targeted Therapy New Cancer Drug Treatments How Avastin Treats Advanced Cancer Avastin (Bevacizumab) is a targeted cancer therapy for various types of advanced [...]
Genetic Cancer Testing
Genetic Cancer Risk Evaluation What is the likelihood that you will get cancer? As more and more people are live longer, cancer is becoming a more common disease. In fact, most people have [...]
Understanding Lung Cancer
What Is Lung Cancer Lung cancer takes more lives than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined. It also accounts for 27% of all cancer deaths and roughly over 228,000 new cases of lung [...]
What is Chemo Brain?
Cancer patients sometimes experience mental cloudiness during and even after their cancer treatment. While patients often refer to this feeling of forgetfulness as having a “chemo brain” moment, new studies confirm that the memory [...]
Mastectomy vs Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer Treatment
Deciding Between Mastectomy vs. Lumpectomy Following a breast cancer diagnosis, patients usually have an option between undergoing a lumpectomy or a mastectomy surgery to treat their cancer. While the decision to pick one [...]
Chemotherapy Treatment for Cancer, What is It?
Chemotherapy is a treatment for cancer using drugs to kill cancer cells. Many types of chemotherapy, or chemo treatments, are given intravenously, through a port in the vein, while other treatments may be administered [...]
Using Chemotherapy Ports During Cancer Treatment
Your Portacath During Chemotherapy Chemotherapy treatment is one of the more common forms of treating patients with cancer. The purpose of chemotherapy is to actively go after and terminate cells that are dividing [...]
Using a Portacath for Chemo – A Patient Perspective
When chemotherapy is given intravenously, the drugs are usually injected into a vein directly above the heart, so that the drug is quickly pumped throughout the body. As chemotherapy is given multiple times per [...]
You’ve Been Diagnosed with Cancer, Now What?
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be a very emotional time. But it’s important to get the correct cancer diagnosis staging and then put together a plan of action. Staging means determining what extent the [...]
Opdivo Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment Shows Great Promise
Opdivo (nivolumab) Immunotherapy Opdivo (nivolumab) is a new cancer treatment, referred to as immunotherapy, that stimulates the patient’s immune system to the cancer. Opdivo is showing promise as a treatment that is helping [...]
Chemotherapy Treatment Side Effects
While chemotherapy treatment for cancer helps kill fast growing cancer cells, the treatment often also kills healthy cells, as the chemo drugs usually must travel throughout the body to fight the cancer. Damage to [...]
What to Expect with a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
The diagnosis of breast cancer is often a very emotional time, but it’s not the end of the world. It’s important to make an accurate diagnosis, obtain information on the cancer stage and then [...]
Colon Cancer Awareness Should be All Year
While March is generally considered colorectal cancer awareness month, awareness of colon and rectal cancer should be year-round. Colorectal cancer, which includes both colon cancer and rectal cancer, is the second most leading cause [...]
Afatinib (Gilotrif) Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment Shows Promise
Afatinib is a targeted cancer therapy approved by the FDA in 2013 for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) mutations. Advanced, or metastatic, cancer is where [...]
How Empliciti (Elotuzumab) Treats Multiple Myeloma
New Immunotherapy Offers Promise for Multiple Myeloma Cancer Treatment Empliciti (Elotuzumab) is a new FDA approved immunotherapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma cancer. Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that occurs within [...]
How Herceptin Cancer Treatment Works
Herceptin (trastuzumab) Targets HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Herceptin (trastuzumab) is an approved cancer treatment for certain breast, stomach and esophagus cancers that are HER2-positive – positive for the Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor [...]
Kadcyla ( T-DM1 ) Promising New Breast Cancer Treatment
Kadcyla (T-DM1) Offers Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Hope Recently approved by the FDA, Kadcyla, previously known as T-DM1 during its development, is a drug designed to help women who have stage 3 or [...]
