Cancer Awareness
Your Child Is Diagnosed With Cancer: What do you do?
Make sure your child feels secure and thinks you are confident to take care of this new situation. A young child might not notice your… Continue Reading
Consolidation Therapy For Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
The standard of care for unresectable stage III NSCLC (large tumor with positive nodes) has been chemo radiotherapy sometimes followed by surgery if the combined… Continue Reading
Low Back Pain
Eighty percent of adults will experience significant low back pain sometime during their lifetime. There are multiple causes of low back pain Muscle strain. The… Continue Reading
The Prone Breast Technique For Breast Cancer Patients
When diagnosed with breast cancer, many women are given the options of preserving their breast, by just removing the cancerous tissue, or having their breast… Continue Reading
Proteasome Inhibitors In Multiple Myeloma
Proteasome inhibitors are medications that target proteasomes inside the cells. Proteasomes digest unneeded or damaged proteins. Proteasome inhibitors block proteasomes inside cells causing a buildup… Continue Reading
New Treatment For Indolent Lymphoma
Obinutuzumab was FDA approved in November 2017 as first line therapy for follicular lymphoma. The monoclonal antibody was first given in combination with chemotherapy then… Continue Reading
Can Breast Reconstruction Be Done After a Lumpectomy?
The treatment of breast cancer continues to evolve. With improved screening, detection of breast cancer occurs at an earlier stage and more women are candidates… Continue Reading
Novel Treatment BRCA Mutated Metastatic Breast Cancer
Up to 10% of breast cancers are caused by inherited mutations BRCA 1 and BRCA 2. BRCA 1 and 2 play a major role in… Continue Reading
Immunotherapy In Bladder Cancer
For many years chemotherapy was the only treatment for bladder cancer and notoriously was not very effective and is very toxic. The treatment for bladder… Continue Reading
Inhibitors CDK4 and CDK6 For Metastatic Breast Cancer
In October 2015, the FDA stated that CDK4 and CDK6 inhibitors were breakthrough therapy for metastatic breast cancer ER positive HER2 negative. CDK4 is required… Continue Reading
