Prostate cancer is a hormonally responsive cancer. In 1966, Charles Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for... Read more »
Radiation therapy is one of the more commonly used methods for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. It involves the use of ionizing... Read more »
The facts and the fiction...there are a lot of both. I, for one, am ready for the media to stop replaying various takes on the Women's... Read more »
Many women who took a combination hormone replacement therapy drug—estrogen and progestin, e.g., Prempro, et. al.—ceased their... Read more »
Q. I’ve been diagnosed with HER2-positive stage II breast cancer, and after surgery will be doing chemo (AC + T). After that’s done, my... Read more »
Sexuality is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that incorporates biologic, psychologic, interpersonal, and behavioral dimensions. It is... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
Certain chemotherapies can force the ovaries into retirement within a few months of treatment: This is medical menopause. Fifty percent of women... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
ChemotherapyChemotherapy drugs are "cytotoxic" (cell-killing) drugs. They are given orally or by injection. They work systemically by killing cancer... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
After mastectomy, you likely will have radiation therapy, which targets any cancer cells that may be left behind in the area. The timing and dose of... Read more »
The big story about breast cancer on the front page of the New York times is compelling, but it does not apply to everyone. I was 48 when my cancer... Read more »
Multiple Basal cell cancer due to x-ray therapy for acne... Read more »