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Thoracic Malignancies: A Review of the Latest Evidence
Great therapeutic strides have been made for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this CME, renowned specialists from Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Lung Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Yale Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, ...
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A tragic death becomes a life force.
“A defining moment in my life was when my father was diagnosed with glioblastoma. At the time, we lived in New York’s Hudson Valley, and no area medical center offered treatment for a serious and complicated diagnosis like his. The only ...
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Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Localized and Advanced Genitourinary Malignancies
The management of advanced kidney, bladder, and prostate cancer is rapidly evolving, and new robotic and minimally invasive surgical techniques are now available. Presented by the nationally recognized Fox Chase Cancer Center genitourinary ...
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Preventing Lymphedema Right from the Start:
Using Advanced Microsurgery During Cancer Surgery
For many breast cancer patients, lymphedema is a feared side effect that causes life-disrupting symptoms, including fluid buildup, inflammation, pain, infection, and swelling that can bring arms or legs to three to four times their normal size.
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The Hoofbeats You Hear May Be a Zebra: Cancer Diagnoses in Ages 18 to 39
At Fox Chase, the Young Adult Cancer Program has been developed as a comprehensive, robust resource to help young adults and their doctors face the challenges of cancer just as someone begins to navigate life’s milestones—finishing school, ...
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For Some Rectal Cancer Patients, Prophylactic Chemotherapy Meant a 79% Organ Preservation Result
For patients with cancer in the lower part of the rectum that has not spread to the lymph nodes, chemotherapy administered before localized surgery is an effective method of preserving a patient’s surrounding organs, according to a new ...
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Upending NSCLC Survival Rates with New Care Paradigms
For years, researcher-clinician Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, Chief, Thoracic Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been at the forefront of global exploration into the genetic, proteomics, and cellular landscape of non-small cell ...
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Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health physicians and scientists participated in the presentation and discussion of eight research projects at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2024 Annual Meeting, held this past December in San Diego.
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We All Rise Together: Dr. Camille Ragin's Vision for Health Equity in Cancer Care
The statistics are riveting: Throughout the world, approximately 17 percent of the human population are individuals of African descent.