Genetic testing and cancer care have a complicated relationship, as recently discussed in Gina Kolata's New York Times piece, "When Gene Tests for Breast Cancer Reveal Grim Data but No Guidance." Kolata discusses the potential for unclear results with ...
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Originally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2017 By Paige Allen Cancer can take people through a series of waiting rooms, infusion rooms, operating rooms, and hospital rooms. When it’s over, another problem can be lurking in a different room: t...
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Over her three decades as a nurse at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Pam Jakubek, RN, MSN, has worked plenty of shifts over holidays, caring for patients while her family — and often theirs — waited at home. “As much as I wanted to be home, especially when my d...
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During a TRIP Initiative to Fox Chase Cancer Center during the summer of 2015, Sanjna Shelukar, 17, noticed a cancer patient struggling with her seatbelt as she got into her car. She couldn’t be sure, but guessed that wearing a seatbelt was extremely uncomf...
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Hundreds of people and dogs braved rainy weather to support the advancement of breast cancer research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, making the 17th Annual Paws for the Cause a success. For the fifth year in a row, FOX 29 news anchor Dawn Timmeney hosted the e...
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From Prevention Matters Newsletter, Spring 2016 [PDF] By Agnes Masny, RN, MPH, MSN, CRNP and Susan Montgomery, RN, BSN, OCN, GCN You may have heard that in January 2016, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a panel of medical expe...
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