Living With Grief as a Cancer Survivor
Dealing with grief is different for everybody. Unfortunately, living with a rare disease can bring sadness and grief into one's life. That is why the Livestrong Foundation has offered a…
Dealing with grief is different for everybody. Unfortunately, living with a rare disease can bring sadness and grief into one's life. That is why the Livestrong Foundation has offered a…
A recent article in Med City News outlines the difficult choices patients must make regarding immune compromising but life-saving therapy during the 2020 pandemic. Do they postpone their treatment or…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biotechnology company Tiziana Life Sciences plc has announced that it was recently granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office…
Last week, biopharmaceutical company Deciphera Pharmaceuticals announced results from its Phase 1 clinical trial on QINLOCK (ripretinib). The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, tested QINLOCK as a potential…
A study conducted at the University of Texas has discovered that combination therapy may be a viable treatment for cholangiocarcinoma with BRAF mutations. Researchers treated participants with both dabrafenib and…
In a story reported in News Medical Life Sciences, researchers attempting to treat rare diseases often find themselves with a dilemma- while there aren’t many patients to test treatments on in…
by Danielle Bradshaw from In The Cloud Copy Healthy and diseased colon cells were collected and compared to each other in a recent study to discover why inflammatory bowel disease…
BioFluidica recently issued an announcement that put the spotlight on its patented technology, Liquid Scan®. The new cartridge technology is designed to replace the invasive and painful bone marrow…
Finding the best care for every cancer patient can be difficult, as every patient has different needs. Precision care aims to provide the best treatment for every patient, meaning that…
Each year, around 14,000 U.S. deaths are attributed to ovarian cancer. Yet researchers have historically struggled to find an exact cause of the cancer, or to understand exactly how…
The pandemic has made it difficult to get the same healthcare that we are used to. It is even harder for those who live with a medical condition or serious…
When the team at Freiburg University discovered the domain of the T-cell receptor they were surprised that the newly-coined “RK motif” had never been identified. According to a recent…
Khevin Barnes is a cancer survivor, as he won his battle with breast cancer. While less than one percent of breast cancer diagnoses are males, it is very important to…
According to the American Cancer Society, there are approximately 1.7 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with cancer each year. About forty percent of these cases may be eligible…
The FDA has recently approved pembrolizumab, which is a treatment for colorectal cancer, specifically MSI-H and dMMR colorectal cancer. This approval comes after the release of positive results of the…
According to a story from Medscape, a recent cohort study published in the journal Cancer has concluded that updates are needed to the staging classification currently in use for renal cell carcinoma…
According to ASH Clinical News, a phase 1 trial of lenzilumab illustrated clinical benefits for approximately one third of participants with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. It is a novel antibody, and…
One huge goal throughout the medical world is to find effective and well-tolerated treatments for patients with cancer. According to News Medical, researchers recently discovered one beneficial treatment for…
Last week, I had the privilege of attending a webinar organized by Research!America titled Partnership, Progress, Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Discovery. As implied in the title, the…
By Jodee Redmond, In the Cloud Copy The work of a pediatric oncologist isn’t for the faint of heart. All their patients are children, and the outcome isn’t always good.…
High dose-intensive chemotherapy regimens have been shown as effective for children with Burkitt lymphoma. However, the intensity often leads to discomfort, adverse reactions, and poor outcomes in adult patients, particularly…
According to the ASCO Post, researchers have discovered genomic characteristics of smoldering multiple myeloma that can tell one's risk of progression to multiple myeloma. Dr. Mark Bustoros and his team…
According to a recent press release, biopharmaceutical company CASI Pharmaceuticals filed a Clinical Trial Application (CTA) (IND) in the United Kingdom. CASI Pharmaceuticals is hoping to test the safety…
Findings of the interim analysis from KEYNOTE-177 were presented at the virtual scientific meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held in May 2020. The lead author…
According to a story from BioSpace, the radiopharmaceutical company Clarity Pharmaceuticals has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation to its…