Allie Casey | Authors

June 13, 2017

Findings from a recent pilot study done at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center showed a potential link between e-cigarette use and bladder cancer.

May 18, 2017

More Stage I cancers were diagnosed after the passage of the Affordable Care Act within 5 screenable disease types (colorectal cancer, female breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer) than were diagnosed before ACA implementation.

March 27, 2017

Leslie Schover, PhD, discusses ways in which providers can better address sexuality issues associated with treatment for patients with breast cancer.

March 16, 2017

During a presentation at the 2017 Miami Breast Cancer Conference, Leslie R. Schover, PhD, stressed the importance of preventive sexual counseling in reducing sexual dysfunction resulting from the treatment of breast cancer patients with aromatase inhibitors.

February 16, 2017

An axillary lymph node dissection can be avoided for patients with large, operable tumors in the breast, no clinical signs of cancer in the axillary nodes before being treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and no signs of cancer following a sentinel lymph node biopsy during surgery.

December 26, 2016

Patients with breast cancer who received radiation therapy following a mastectomy reported increased complications and lower satisfaction, according to the results of a large, multicenter study.