May 1, 2018

For cancer hospital inpatients, hospitalists often act as team leaders—collaborating with the members of the cancer patient’s care team to coordinate treatment plan details and therapies designed to manage side effects.

April 26, 2018

Obese cancer patients often don’t respond as well to chemotherapy as patients who are not overweight. One study may explain why.

April 24, 2018

But for some people, the risk of cancer poses a constant threat, because they have what’s known as a hereditary cancer syndrome.

April 19, 2018

It’s a common conundrum faced by cancer doctors: Many of the treatments they use to fight cancer may do their job well, but at the same time, they may cause serious damage to the heart.

April 17, 2018

“If you don’t have a correct diagnosis, you cannot treat the patient correctly,” says CTCA Pathologist Fernando U. Garcia, MD. Learn about the critical role a pathology report plays in the cancer patient’s journey.

April 10, 2018

Researchers are finding that combining immunotherapy with focused radiation treatments delivered directly to the tumor sometimes shrinks not just the targeted tumor, but cancers located in areas of the body that were not radiated.

April 5, 2018

Some patients may put off chemotherapy treatments for more than two years, thanks to a new class of drugs approved for metastatic breast cancer.

March 22, 2018

Many Americans are buzzing over the federal government's recent approval of the country's first prescription-free genetic test for hereditary mutations linked to several common cancers. But cancer experts are raising serious concerns that the test will do more harm than good.

March 15, 2018

In patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal system, malnutrition is a constant threat because of the digestive tract's role in processing food and waste. Still, patients can take certain precautions in keeping their body nourished, and getting educated about the issue is a good first step.