By Edward Soffen, MD, FACP Going through breast cancer treatment is emotionally and physically difficult for women. It’s also a major disruption to a woman’s everyday life. In the case of radiation therapy, women have traditionally received daily treatments for at least six weeks. Between getting to the hospital [...]
By Amy Tilara, MD One simple procedure may add years to your life. I recently performed a screening colonoscopy on a 51-year-old man who wasn’t experiencing any of the typical symptoms of colon cancer, but had been referred for the test by his primary care physician. I found [...]
Considering the outstanding inroads we’ve made in cancer prevention and detection over the years, it still seems that every day we hear about someone else receiving a cancer diagnosis. It doesn't seem to add up. The good news is that we are more likely to survive cancer and go on to [...]
By Seth S. Joseffer, MD, FACS While other types of cancer have increased or decreased over the past 25 years, brain cancer cases have remained fairly constant. In all, there are more than 120 different types of brain tumors, but glioblastoma (the most malignant brain tumor) accounts for roughly a [...]
By Bhavesh Balar, MD Cancer is an unpredictable disease — two people diagnosed with the same type of cancer may have completely different responses to the same treatment. That’s why cancer care continues to evolve from standardized treatment regimens to more personalized, targeted therapies. These newer treatments take [...]
By Edward Soffen, MD, FACP A woman in her 80s recently came to see me because she had a small skin cancer lesion on her nostril that needed treatment She was worried that having it surgically removed would leave a scar on a very prominent area of her [...]
By Peter Mezzacappa, MD Thousands of women each year are found, during routine screening mammograms, to have breast calcifications, which are calcium deposits within the breast tissue. While these calcifications are usually harmless, they can, in some cases, indicate breast cancer or precancerous conditions of the breast. In [...]
By Bhavesh Balar, MD About two years ago, I came to a profound realization that it was time for a change. I needed to make a rather dramatic transformation in terms of my lifestyle choices, nutritional decisions, fitness routines, and overall health – pretty much my entire physical [...]
By Bhavesh Balar, MD Over the past few years, the cancer community has been encouraged that our ability to fight cancer seems to improve by the day. In fact, the American Cancer Society reports that from 1991 to 2012 (the most current data available), the combined cancer [...]
Medicine has made remarkable strides over the past few decades in treating breast cancer, but one in eight American women are still diagnosed with breast cancer yearly. Early diagnosis is the most important part of ensuring a long survival after diagnosis. If you or a loved one is diagnosed, [...]
