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 ...

The most important tool physicians use to monitor you after prostate cancer treatment is a blood test that measures something called prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, levels. However, a spike in PSA ...

A groundbreaking targeted radiation therapy is reimagining how oncologists approach metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Pluvicto (lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan) belongs to ...

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 ...

Kari Neumayer was diagnosed with advanced stage ovarian cancer at age 44 last year after a dermatologist removed a small growth from her navel (belly button). Before the days of CT scans, the 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, ...

An innovative and rapidly advancing treatment that offers significant promise for certain patients with advanced prostate cancer is radioligand therapy. You might hear it discussed as “targeted ...

A class of drugs called androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) are often added to the treatment plan, alongside androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), for men diagnosed with metastatic prostate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...