Birth control pills have been shown to decrease the risk for certain cancers and increase the risk for others. Here, the current research is summarized on how birth control pills can impact your risk of cancer and questions to ask your doctor if you are taking or considering taking the pill.
In this podcast, Dr. Manali Patel interviews Stephanie Walker about her experience living with metastatic breast cancer, how she got involved with patient advocacy, and her work leading the BECOME Research project to increase Black patient participation in clinical trials.
Dr. Sean Smith discusses what to know about exercising after a mastectomy, including how this type of surgery can impact nearby muscles, what to consider before starting exercise after a mastectomy, and what types of exercise are most helpful.
Read research from the 2022 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, including studies on how cancer navigation programs and lower-cost drug alternatives can lower the cost of care and a study on how Medicaid expansion affected the rates of metastatic cancer diagnoses and cancer deaths.
Beth Gardner spent several years as a competitive rower and learned plenty of lessons along the way that helped her throughout her cancer experience. Here, she shares what those key lessons were and how they can help others with cancer.
In this podcast, members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) discuss new research presented at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting in multiple myeloma, breast cancer, and cancer in people age 60 or older.
Breast cancer survivor Karen Kratenstein shares helpful tips on what to say when talking with and supporting a loved one with cancer, as well as how other people with cancer can ask for the support they need.
In this post, several experts describe what Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received mantle radiation should know about their increased breast cancer risk, including what to know about screening and monitoring for signs of breast cancer.
The ASCO Annual Meeting is being held June 3 to 7, and here is some of notable research that will be presented today. Today’s research includes a study evaluating whether radiation therapy can be avoided after surgery for people aged 55 or older with low-grade luminal A breast cancer, as identified through biomarker testing.
The ASCO Annual Meeting is being held June 3 to 7, and here is some of the notable research that will be presented today. Topics include advances in treating HER2-low metastatic breast cancer, RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer, recurrent and refractory Ewing sarcoma, and newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.
