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Further analyses of Study 301, which compared eribulin to capecitabine in the treatment of advanced breast cancer, showed greater improvements in quality of life (QOL) with eribulin, and overall survival (OS) benefits in subsets of patients. Read More ›

“Wow, those meetings must be sober events.” I’ve gotten this and other similar comments regularly over the past 6½ years since I received my diagnosis of stage III breast cancer in 2007. Fortunately for me and many other women, the assumption couldn’t be less accurate. Read More ›

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The September 30, 2013, presidential proclamation acknowledging this points out that “This disease touches every corner of the United States—in 2013 alone, more than 230,000 women and over 2,000 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and tens of thousands will die from it.” Read More ›

Would I have a chance to be accepted, as I did not technically qualify as a “breast cancer activist,” was the thought that raced through my mind as I viewed the following description on the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) website? Read More ›

Patients with cancer face many challenges, including eating well to maintain a good nutritional status and avoid weight loss and malnutrition. Read More ›

The word survivor has come to be widely identified and associated with words such as courage, heroine, brave, and fighter. Thus, it might surprise many that this socially endeared title is often debated in the breast cancer community. Read More ›

Building Bridges to Con­quer Cancer, the theme of the 2013 annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting held in Chicago, IL, is an appropriate goal of all healthcare practitioners who specialize in hematology/oncology, including postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) oncology pharmacy residents. Read More ›

Efficacy outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are poorer with advanced age and the presence of FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD). Read More ›

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. The presidential proclamation noting this included the following statement encouraging “all Americans to lend their support to family, friends, and neighbors whose lives have been touched by prostate cancer. Read More ›

The Taussig Cancer Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio employs more than 250 highly skilled doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who provide advanced cancer care to more than 14,000 patients with cancer each year. Read More ›