More than a decade after his wife’s death, Lowell Dubrow is still fighting cancer by funding research at Fox Chase. “One of the things about cancer is that there are a lot of people touched by it—almost everyone is—and those stories kind of get to you,...

In the current era of fiscal restraints, other common sources of research funding, in particular those from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have both decreased and tended to support more conventional and conservative work, and, thus, it has become ...

My research staff and I at Fox Chase Cancer Center have recently launched a new study called PROGRESS (Prostate Cancer Online Guide& Resources for Electronic Survivorship Service) for men who have completed prostate cancer treatment within the last year...

Cancer-related fatigue is a feeling of tiredness or exhaustion that is persistent and often not related to any activity.It is often not relieved by rest. People who feel fatigue often say that even a small effort, such as walking across a room, can see...

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States. The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved a type of blood test, prostate specific antigen (PSA), in 1986.Since then, PSA has been widely used for prostate cancer s...

A lot of media attention has been given to a recent paper from the Canadian National Breast Screening Study.This study, begun in 1980, randomized women to annual mammograms for five years versus no screening. The current paper is a 25 year-follow ...