“A positive attitude is really important,” says Dr. Zuri Murrell, a colorectal surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. If you have just been diagnosed with cancer, negative feelings are ...

When multiple myeloma comes back you are going to face decisions about which treatment to choose because there is no single standard of care. We’ve created a series of videos to help you in this ...

SurvivorNet holds an annual Close the Gap conference to educate, spread awareness, and ultimately, work to eliminate, racial disparities in cancer care. The goal is to ensure everyone has access to ...

Cervical cancer incidence in the US has been going down steadily for years. Famous survivors like Erin Andrews, Judy Blume and Georgia Tennant have used their own experiences with the disease to ...

Actress Susan Sullivan, 82, who announced she was “cancer-free” from non-small cell lung cancer (the most common type of lung cancer) last year, is now battling lymphoma. She hasn’t specified what ...

There are several new drugs and treatment modalities available for those facing advanced stage prostate cancer. You should speak with your oncologist to determine which might work for your specific ...

Only some lung cancer patients benefit, especially those with PD-L1 protein on their cells, as it responds well to immunotherapy. Clinical trials are exploring new targets beyond PD-L1, potentially ...

Judy Perkins will be in medical textbooks for years to come for being the first person to be declared free of metastatic breast cancer after a course of immunotherapy. Since SurvivorNet last checked ...

A new targeted approach, which combines a drug called encorafenib with cetuximab and chemotherapy regimen mFOLFOX6, has received accelerated FDA approval for metastatic colorectal cancer with a BRAF ...

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a type of cancer of the white blood cells. In CML, blast cells (or immature white blood cells) form and uncontrollably multiply and divide and can impair the body’s ...

Oswald Peterson, 54, is a stage four lung cancer survivor who has been cancer free after receiving treatment with a game changing class of drugs called checkpoint inhibitors (or PD-L1 inhibitors), ...

Lung cancer clinical trials are research studies that involve testing new innovative approaches to diagnose, prevent, manage, treat, and improve the quality of life for people with lung cancer. For ...