Christina Izzo

People infected with HIV who have also developed cancer are two to four times more likely to not receive treatment for their cancer compared to uninfected cancer patients,

With the cost of cancer care ever rising, a team of cancer specialists at the University of Chicago has developed a tool to help measure a patient's risk for and ability to tolerate financial stress.

Receiving counseling from a genetic healthcare provider before genetic testing educates patients and may help reduce unnecessary procedures

The majority of women with breast cancer who undergo the recommended genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations and test positive prior to undergoing surgery will change their surgical plan to include a more extensive procedure, a new study reports.

The American Cancer Society has released new Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care guidelines that outline post treatment clinical follow-up care for the myriad of long-term and late effects.

A new study has shown that the risk of developing melanoma was more closely related to sun exposure in early life than in adulthood in young Caucasian women.

A pilot study of an educational and behavioral program conducted by researchers at the New York University College of Nursing has successfully reduced the risk of lymphedema in breast cancer patients who have undergone axillary lymph node dissection or sentinel lymph node biopsy.

A new study published today online in CANCER shows that the majority of breast cancer patients did not meet national physical activity guidelines after they were diagnosed

A recent survey conducted by the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) showed a significant increase in patient calls and requests for testing and referrals from healthcare providers in the year following actress Angelina Jolie's announcement of her BRCA mutation status and subsequent double mastectomy.

A 10-year follow-up study of regional melanoma staging strategies found that patients who underwent sentinel-node biopsies had significantly greater disease-free survival rates (DFSRs) compared with patients monitored through nodal observation.

New data has revealed that breastfeeding, tubal ligation, and oral contraceptives may lower the risk of ovarian cancer for some women with BRCA gene mutations,

WETA, the Washington, DC, public television station, has launched a new website as part of a national outreach for the documentary The Story of Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, which will be produced by Ken Burns.

An analysis of a large, nationwide dataset has revealed that regardless of their socioeconomic status, black women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and Asian/Pacific Islander women are more likely to be diagnosed with HER2-overexpressing breast cancer compared with white women.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology has released new resources to help healthcare providers and patients manage the complications of obesity in patients with cancer, the organization announced.

Caregivers of patients with multiple myeloma face similar challenges to those faced by the patients themselves.

Nurses at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have developed a program to help patients with early-stage breast cancer to better understand and retain information about their presurgical treatments.

Patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy as treatment for their breast cancer were less likely to be working after their treatment compared with patients who were not treated with adjuvant chemotherapy.

Cancer patients felt more satisfied with their radiation treatment when they remained active in treatment decisions, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) announced today three new evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on neuropathy, fatigue, and depression and anxiety in cancer survivors, the first three in a planned series of ASCO guidelines on survivorship care.

Patients who had a high Body Mass Index (BMI) before being diagnosed with colorectal cancer had an increased risk of death after diagnosis, even if their tumor harbored the microsatellite instability (MSI) marker

Women with irregular menstrual cycles have a 2.4-fold increased risk of death from ovarian cancer, according to a large, prospective study presented at the 2014 AACR Annual Meeting.

Women who took the fertility drugs clomiphene citrate (Clomid) or gonadotropins did not experience an increased risk for breast cancer compared with women who were not treated with those medications, according to a 30-year follow-up study published in the April issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Common nursing interventions are based solely on tradition, not on research or other evidence-based practice guidelines

Early-stage overweight endometrial and breast cancer survivors had moderate success in lowering their body mass index (BMI) and waste circumference after using the web and smart phone/tablet–based weight loss application "Lose It!"

A new study has found that one in four breast cancer survivors report that they are worse off financially even 4 years after their last treatment and 12% report they still have medical debt from their treatment.