Karen Cordova shares what it was like losing her childhood best friend to cancer, including the difficulty that came with understanding her friend’s death as a child and how she honors her friend today as an adult.
People may have concerns about whether living near power lines can increase their risk for cancer. Here, we discuss where this fear comes from and what the research says about power lines and cancer risk.
In this “Your Stories” podcast from Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, Dr. Mark Applebaum discusses what it’s like to provide care for children with cancer and how research can help kids live more comfortably through the cancer experience.
In this podcast, 3 experts discuss what it means to have the capacity to make decisions during cancer, and what families and caregivers should know if they need to make decisions on behalf of someone else.
In this podcast, Cancer.Net Associate Editors discuss new research from the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program and what it means for patients.
Dr. Gevorg Tamamyan describes what cancer care is like for children in Armenia and the role charities play in helping with the costs of diagnosis and treatment.
Read research highlights just released from the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program. They include studies on immunotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer and gestational trophoblastic disease, maintenance therapy for advanced bladder cancer, the potential of precision medicine for childhood cancers, and targeted therapy after surgery for EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer.
Lea los puntos destacados de la investigación del programa científico virtual ASCO20 que se acaban de publicar. Incluyen estudios sobre inmunoterapia para el cáncer colorrectal metastásico y la enfermedad trofoblástica gestacional, terapia de mantenimiento para el cáncer de vejiga avanzado, el potencial de la medicina de precisión para el cáncer infantil y la terapia dirigida después de la cirugía por EGFR (receptor del factor de crecimiento epidérmico), positivo de cáncer de pulmón de células no pequeñas.
Read research highlights that will be presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, covering low-fat diets and risk of breast cancer death, chemotherapy for older adults with esophageal cancer, targeted therapy for those at risk for multiple myeloma, the rate of genetic changes in childhood cancers, and a new targeted therapy for childhood central nervous system tumors.
