Stem cell transplants aim to help a patient recover from the loss of blood cells they experience while being treated for multiple myeloma. These blood-making cells are removed from the body and stored ...

If you have non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), your doctor will recommend PD-L1 testing. This test will help your doctor understand if you can be treated with a type of cancer drug called immune ...

Veteran MSNBC news anchor Andrea Mitchell, 78, announced in late October that she would be stepping down from her long-running daily news show, Andrea Mitchell Reports — which first aired in 2008 — ...

When it comes to picking a surgeon, experience is obviously key. But Dr. Jay Shah, a urologic oncologist at Stanford Medicine, says you shouldn’t simply ask surgeons how many operations they’ve ...

Looking at the genetic makeup of multiple myeloma cells can help in deciding how aggressive treatment should be and what therapy to take. A fluorescence in situ hybridization test (FISH) is one of the ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer type among U.S. veterans and men in general. 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. As the medical field continues to make ...

Clinical trial of 468 patients showed new drug Trodelvy doubled survival over chemotherapy. Trodelvy stops disease progression for more than five months, compared to less than two on chemotherapy.

It began as a lump in her groin. They thought it was a hernia, but when they did the operationthey found the melanoma. A very large one that required surgery to remove. Dr. Anna Pavlick, a medical ...

90% of women who get breast cancer now live. Despite the huge trauma of the disease, it’s an amazingly hopeful and exciting field, says SurvivorNet Medical Advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Comen. These days ...

There are multiple CD4/CD6 inhibitors that are currently available for metastatic estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers, including Ibrance, Kisqali, and Verzenio. When you hear estrogen ...

When multiple myeloma comes back you are going to face decisions about which treatment to choose because there is no single standard of care. We’ve created a series of videos to help you in this ...

A rectal spacer is a gel that doctors inject between the prostate and rectum before radiation therapy to specifically target and reduce side effects of the treatment such as bladder leakage and rectal ...