By Young Kwok, MD and Katarina Steacy, CRNP Over the last several decades, there’s been a revolution in pediatric cancers. Better surgical techniques, more effective chemotherapy agents and regimens, and improved radiation delivery have boosted long-term survival from less than 10% forty years ago to more than 85% for many [...]

As the mercury rises in summer, so should awareness of skin cancer, the most common cancer type. More people develop skin cancer each year in the U.S. than all other cancer types combined – about one in five adults develop some type of skin cancer before the age of 70, [...]

Progress in Treating Lung Cancer, But Challenges Persist Several innovations over the past few years have revolutionized the way we treat lung cancer. For example, minimally invasive surgical techniques have reduced the recovery times associated with open surgeries and helped patients heal faster; immune checkpoint inhibitors have nearly doubled survival [...]

Since the mid-2000s, the incidence of oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers has increased by about 1% per year, a rise coincident with a demographic shift to younger patients. These changes have largely been driven by an increase in cancers associated with human papillomavirus (HPV), which estimates suggest affect up to [...]

Over the past few decades, oncologists have made significant gains in reducing morbidity and mortality in many forms of cancer. Unfortunately, these advances haven’t extended to some gynecologic cancers. For endometrial cancer, the most common gynecologic cancer in the U.S, the number of patients diagnosed and killed by this cancer [...]

Recent years have brought major advances in the treatment of oligometastatic cancer. In the past, such cancers were treated with palliative care meant to slow the spread of tumors and improve patient comfort. Now targeted radiation – including proton therapy – when used in conjunction with other treatments can enable [...]

Black women face a myriad of health disparities that complicate the treatment of breast cancer. Not only are they more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced and aggressive breast cancer, but they are also more likely to face cardiovascular comorbidities. A groundbreaking new study shows that proton therapy – [...]

In recent years, cancer diagnoses in people under the age of 40 have become more and more common. A study published in JAMA Network Open indicated that while cancers among older adults have declined, cancers among people younger than 50 have increased, with the largest increases among those aged 30 [...]

From the time the FDA approved proton therapy to treat patients in 1988, research through clinical trials has helped the field of radiation oncology better understand the benefits of this advanced treatment. Extensive studies over the years has informed us of the clinical benefits of proton therapy on tumors in [...]

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide. About one in five Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70, and more than two people die of skin cancer in the U.S. every hour. The good news is that most patients are successfully “cured” by surgical [...]