Health

Newer cancer therapies easily cost upward of $100,000. Why so much? Who sets the prices and what can patients do if they can’t afford them?

On Halloween of 2010, David Mitchell got out of bed and immediately fell to the floor with pain so excruciating he was unable to move. A few days later, the results of his MRI showed malignant-appearing lesions up and down his spine and ribs, and he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

Multiple myeloma is incurable but treatable, ...

A study out of Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia found that 87% of survivors of breast, pelvic, endometrial, prostate, bladder and rectal cancer said treatment affected their sexual function or desire.

A month after Alegra Woodard received a diagnosis of stage 1 cervical cancer, she underwent a radical hysterectomy, a surgery that removes the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, left and right pelvic nodes, cervix, tissue around the cervix, and the upper part of the vagina. ...

Black and Latino patients are more likely to receive a diagnosis of and die of cancer than White patients. How can we end this disparity?

Here’s the grim truth of the matter: According to the National Cancer Institute, Black people are more likely to die of most cancers than any other racial group.

Despite improvements in cancer outcomes across the population in recent years, racial disparities remain. Dr. Luis Raez, chief scientific officer and medical director of Memorial Healthcare System’s Memorial Cancer ...

Most who undergo mastectomy lose feeling in their chests, but microsurgeons can now restore sensation by connecting nerves during tissue-based reconstruction.

Surgeons discussing reconstruction after mastectomy usually focus on the size and shape of the new breast and how to make something that looks as normal as possible. But what about making something that feels like it did before, and not just on the outside?

Almost all women who have a mastectomy lose sensation in their chest, many of them forever. Dr. ...

Participants in Airbnb’s Open Homes program help nonprofit organizations to provide temporary lodging for cancer patients.

WHEN KAROL HANSEN WAS DIAGNOSED ​​with metastatic breast cancer in April 2019, her doctors recommended simultaneous radiation and chemotherapy treatments daily for a period of six weeks to address her fast-growing tumors. To Hansen, driving 110 miles from her home in Temecula, California, to her oncologist’s office at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center didn’t seem realistic.

Hansen reached out to Cancer Support Community ...