Navigating Mental Health Around Cancer Diagnosis

Dr. Erin Baurle details the benefits of oncology counseling in helping patients with diagnosis disclosure and how to replace that familiar phrase of “let me know if you need anything” when offering to help a loved one with cancer.  

Studying the Power of Therapy Resistance

With support from a $3.3 million federal grant Virginia Borges, MD, and Traci Lyons, PhD, will investigate how a molecule they’ve been studying for a decade is able to promote resistance to therapies for a major type of breast cancer in the hopes of determining how to switch off the molecule’s harmful interference.

Exciting Updates for Bladder Cancer Treatment

At this years annual NCCN Conference in Orlando Dr. Flaig was excited to share the effectiveness of enfortumab vedotin, a new antibody drug conjugate that targets a particular or a bladder cancer cell and then delivers chemotherapy directly to that cell.

Rise in Colon Cancer Among Younger Populations

According to Dr. Chris Lieu, colon cancer is becoming the number one cancer-related issue in younger populations, with The American Cancer Society expecting more than 150,000 people to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2024.