For women with metastatic breast cancer that has stopped responding to treatment and contains hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative characteristics, there is finally a new option. The FDA has ...

If you have responded well to induction and consolidation therapy, you'll enter maintenance therapy as the final final phase of treatment in an effort to maintain a cancer-free status. Maintenance ...

Radical prostatectomy, or the removal of the prostate gland, remains a highly effective and widely used treatment for localized prostate cancer. When patients undergo robot-assisted laparoscopic ...

PARP inhibitors are a newer class of oral therapies for advanced prostate cancer that target faulty DNA repair mechanisms. This class of drugs is particularly effective at treating cancers that have ...

After a prostate cancer diagnosis, it’s natural to be overwhelmed with a wide-range of questions. Will I need surgery? What about side effects? Is this something I can live with? The truth, often lost ...

Once considered an indefinite treatment, androgen deprivation therapy (also called hormone therapy) is now being reassessed in light of its long-term physical, mental, and sexual health impacts on ...

Radiation therapy for prostate cancer offers a spectrum of effective and safe options tailored to each individual’s clinical situation and personal preferences. From traditional external beam therapy ...

Recovery after surgery to remove the prostate (also referred to as prostatectomy) is a staged process focusing on healing, bladder control, and sexual function. Immediately following surgery, a ...

40 years after the worst nuclear power disaster in American history occurred on Three Mile Island, people from the area are still getting sick, and the incidence of thyroid cancer is rising faster in ...

Metastatic prostate cancer means the disease has spread beyond the prostate, most often to the bones. While this generally requires systemic therapy (or therapy that treats the whole body), radiation ...

Hormone therapy, also known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), is the foundation of treatment for advanced prostate cancer and works by reducing or blocking testosterone, which fuels cancer growth ...

After treatment for prostate cancer, you will be monitored regularly with a PSA blood test. However, a rising PSA level doesn’t always mean cancer has returned. If higher levels of PSA are detected, ...