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Doctors Aim to Preserve Bladder Function for Cancer Patients
As a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center offers our patients the most advanced treatment options through clinical trials, many of which are not readily available elsewhere. Our nationally ranked do...
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Doctors Aim to Preserve Bladder Function for Cancer Patients
American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Recent Research Highlights
From Prevention Matters Newsletter, Spring 2016 [PDF] By Elias Obeid, MD, MPH Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is when the cancer has spread to parts of the body other than the prostate, and is able to grow and spread despite tre...
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American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Recent Research Highlights
Post-transplantation Relapse in Lymphomas
If the lymphoma comes back (relapses) after having received a stem cell transplant, treatment options are very limited. Treatment of a post-transplant relapse is further complicated by residual side effects related to the transplant. In the world of bone...
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Post-transplantation Relapse in Lymphomas
Prostate Cancer Survivorship Study is Now Open
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...
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Prostate Cancer Survivorship Study is Now Open
Customized Kidney Cancer Treatment, Tailor Made for Each Patient
The recent work of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) showing the underlying genetic changes for kidney cancer is groundbreaking, and it will lead to major progress in kidney cancer treatment (see related blog). But another exciting new therapy is already av...
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Customized Kidney Cancer Treatment, Tailor Made for Each Patient
Patients’ Genes Provide a Blueprint for Hope in Cancer Treatment
A article in yesterday’s New York Times (“Cancer Centers Racing to Map Patients’ Genes,” April 21, 2013) discusses the emerging importance of gene mapping in determining precise medical treatment.Fox Chase Cancer Center has been pursuing this course of...
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