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The Association of Community Cancer Centers has lauched a financial advocacy boot camp offering free comprehensive online training for oncology financial advocates.

National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation joins Pattern.org in an effort to collect tumor tissue form patients with rare cancers.

National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation has collaborated to bring resources to family, caregivers and patients with leiomyosarcoma.

Regina Cunningham, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, discusses her career journey, which led her to become CEO of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and shares insights on how nurses can leverage their unique skills to assume leadership roles in healthcare.

ASCO has released its Clinical Practice Guidelines as an app so clinicians can keep important information at their fingertips.

Daratumumab (Darzalex) has been approved for use in combination with pomalidomide (pomalyst) and dexamethasone for patients with multiple myeloma.

Expert Ilana Cass, MD, explains the options that women with have when it comes to preventing ovarian cancer.

Communication is key when it comes to discussing genetic information and hereditary cancers with family members.

A recent study looked at the long-term health-related effects of treatment for patients with localized prostate cancer, finding that some can continue for more than 10 years after treatment.

Adjuvant pertuzumab may help some early breast cancer patients.

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD, medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the new treatment guidelines for patients with non-metastatic muscle invasive bladder cancer.

The PARP inhibitor olaparib (Lynparza) was shown to reduce the risk of disease progression by 42% compared to standard chemotherapy in patients with BRCA-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

A recent study has found that a topical nail bed balm may be effective in preventing and mitigating nail damage, a common adverse effect from taxane chemotherapy.

By developing a training program, nurses in radiation at Johns Hopkins Hospital were able to eliminate the use of anasthesia for pediatric patients.

The novel psychological intervention, called CALM, has been shown to alleviate the distress of patients with advanced cancer.

The incidence of prostate cancer is 60% in black men in the US than in white men, and they are twice as likely to die from the disease.

As the intensity of treatments for childhood cancer drop, so does the rate of severe long-term side effects in these patients.

Patients new diagnosed with cancer were able to improve quality of life and distress by through a web-based stress management program.

According to findings presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting, earlier intervention with abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) lowered the risk of death by 40% for men with high-risk advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.

A recent study presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting found that breast cancer survivors who became pregnant had no greater risk of recurrence or death than women who underwent breast cancer treatment but did not become pregnant.

As presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting, adding abemaciclib to fulvestrant can reduce the risk of disease progression or death by 45% compared to fulvestrant alone in pretreated patients with HR+/HER2-negative breast cancer.

According to findings presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting, patients with low-risk advanced colon cancer would benefit from a reduction in chemotherapy post-surgery, without increasing risk of recurrence, to reduce risk of neuropathy.

According to findings reported at ASCO 2017, patients receiving treatment for metastatic cancer who used a web-based tool to report their symptoms lived on average 5 months longer.

According to findings presented at 2017 ASCO, frontline treatment with ribociclib (Kisqali) plus letrozole improved PFS for patients with HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer.

As presented at ASCO 2017, a recent study found that psychological intervention can substantially lower the fear of cancer recurrence in survivors.

A recent survey found that women with ovarian cancer are uncertain of what to expect, and experience a gap when communicating with healthcare providers.

The Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) announced the recipients of the 2017 Young Investigator Awards.

The traditional Chinese exercise, tai chi, may assist breast cancer survivors experiencing insomnia.

A recent study found that gliomas are less common among patients with higher blood sugar and diabetes.