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 ...

If you’re dealing with advanced prostate cancer, the thought of surgery might feel like a lot to take in — and that’s completely understandable. For many men facing an advanced diagnosis, surgery will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Helen Lambin, who is almost 90 years old, has approximately 100 tattoos all over her body Known in her Chicago neighborhood as Granny Ink, she only got her first tattoo at the age of 75 to find joy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...