Adding Color and Comfort to your Holiday Meal for Cancer Patients
While holidays are a joyful time for many, for lung cancer patients who are undergoing or have recently completed treatment, the holidays can often be more of a challenging time
While holidays are a joyful time for many, for lung cancer patients who are undergoing or have recently completed treatment, the holidays can often be more of a challenging time
Why is nutrition important to cancer patients? Nutrition is important for lung cancer patients because it can help patients stay strong before, during, and after cancer treatment
Approximately 5% of non-small cell lung cancer patients have tumors resulting from the fusion of the ALK gene with another gene (usually EML4). While there are a number of tyrosine
Lija Joseph, MD, @lijjoseph explains her role as a pathologist who runs a novel patient-pathologist consultation program at Lowell General Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts, as
Precision medicine is defined as biomarker-driven care, which includes both targeted therapies and immunotherapies, as well as treatments in which a biomarker or lack of biomarker
One of the most important steps that someone with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can do for their care is have comprehensive biomarker testing at diagnosis and
I am a survivor. My story is one of early detection. My story could be very different if not for that. In 2015, I had a pulmonary embolism. A CT scan of the embolism showed that
Taste alterations and aversions can be a common side effect from certain lung cancer chemotherapy drugs. When food does not taste the way you expect it to (or it has a bad taste
Comprehensive biomarker testing is the first step for advanced-stage NSCLC patients to secure personalized and specific information about their cancer to guide critical decisions
In recent years, immunotherapy, a treatment that enhances the body’s own immune cancer-fighting response, has been shown to be a very promising treatment option. Immunotherapy has