Sarcomas are a broad group of cancers that originate from connective tissues, such as the blood or lymph vessels, gastrointestinal tract, fat tissue, tendons, smooth muscles and tissue around the joints. These tumors are broadly divided into bone sarcomas and soft tissue sarcomas. With more than 70 subtypes of sarcoma, there are also a wide variety of treatment approaches and prognoses, and everything about the disease...
Cancer cells often develop genetic mutations that initiate and sustain the growth of tumors. The most frequently mutated of these oncogenic...
Leukemia treatments have been constantly improving from the days when patients had to come to the hospital or clinic for intravenous doses...
For patients with cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer, the first line of treatment often includes standard cancer treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. However, in the last few years, oncologists have found that there may be a better option for patients whose cancer has a mutation in the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR).
FGFR inhibitors, in combination with standard treatments,...
The human immune system is constantly attacking damaged cells that might turn into cancer, thus protecting us from these cells growing out...
You may have heard someone with multiple myeloma mention the possibility of BCMA-targeted therapy and wondered what BCMA means and why it...
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been an amazing advance for treating blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple...