March 02, 2022
Article
The number of people developing leptomeningeal disease is increasing for the same reason that diagnoses of brain metastases are on the rise: People are living longer, giving cancer more time to spread.
March 01, 2022
Article
Better therapies are on the horizon for cancer that has spread to the brain, including a clinical trial that matches patients with treatments based on unique genetic changes in brain metastases.
November 03, 2021
Article
Feature
When cancer treatments stop working, it is not the end of the line. Most patients with advanced disease will be on continuous therapy, and that means trying different options along the way.
October 28, 2021
Article
Feature
Although being in a close relationship during the cancer journey can dramatically improve outcomes, the stress of treatment and the diagnosis itself can take a toll on couples, sometimes in a negative way.
October 25, 2021
Article
From the Chairman
When a patient’s disease stops responding, doctors can usually offer patients several options for a next treatment that will accommodate the patient’s needs and goals, or patients can consider a clinical trial.
October 22, 2021
Article
Connections
Myeloma survivors, their loved ones and clinicians trekked up the Alaska-Kenai Peninsula to raise money and funds for the disease, offering one nurse the inspiration she needed after more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 19, 2021
Article
Feature
Oncologists are learning that cancer can be treated during pregnancy with relative safety in the second and third trimester.
October 18, 2021
Article
Research News and Updates
More selective BTK inhibitors like Brukinsa may give patients with mantle cell lymphoma who progressed on prior therapies another option with potentially fewer and more manageable side effects.
October 14, 2021
Article
Editor's Page
Brain metastases are a pattern of spread we are seeing more for many tumor types as patients are living longer with metastatic cancer and we more readily use an array of brain imaging technologies when needed.
October 14, 2021
Article
Research News and Updates
Detectable amounts of minimal residual disease after treatment for CLL does not mean that all hope is lost for survival without disease progression.