by Stacey Hawkins | Apr 21, 2020 | Oncology
Solid tumors are generally considered more difficult to treat than blood cancers. For example, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has been amazingly effective against blood cancers that failed to respond to other types of treatment, while inroads against... 
by Stacey Hawkins | May 12, 2016 | Oncology
Pushing the Self-Destruct Button Breakthrough drug Venclexta charged onto the marketplace three months early to battle chronic lymphocytic leukemia. AbbVie’s (North Chicago, IL) and Roche’s (Basel, Switzerland) new therapy gained a quick approval after 80% of... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Apr 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Subtypes of Breast Cancer Hearing your doctor utter the words HER2-positive, HR-positive, triple-negative, or BRCA mutation can be devastating—even for the most resilient person. Simply put, all are linked to breast cancer. Breast cancer is complex and a diagnosis...
