“Our main focus is to evaluate patients who may have inherited forms of cancer, where it would make a difference in the management of their disease or the management of their family’s risk,” says Joseph F. Maher, MD.
The symptoms of liver cancer can be nonspecific. The most common way that liver cancer is diagnosed is when a patient goes to their primary care doctor or their gastroenterologist for a routine follow-up and has some blood tests that come back abnormal.
If the patient’s cancer didn’t respond to chemotherapy and radiation, options were limited other than a wait-and-see approach. But new research has found that the introduction of an immunotherapy medication can dramatically improve their response.
If you find the idea of injecting yourself to be stressful, keep in mind the benefits: it can free you from repeated trips to the doctor’s office and associated co-pays.
For many types of pediatric cancers, the treatment that helps save a child’s life might also cause lifelong challenges.
A revolutionary new kind of therapy might change all that.
Ewing sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that forms in the bones and soft tissue of children, teenagers and young adults. Options for treatment have yet to move past chemotherapy and radiation.
The medications used in cancer treatment are very powerful. If you are handling or receiving these drugs, you must take these precautions to keep everyone in your home safe.