Genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk has been available for about 20 years. A family history with more than one case of the same or related cancers, young cancers, or people who had cancer more than once might be offered genetic testing. This tes...

For decades, the Pap test had been the only test available to screen for cervical cancer. The Pap is simple, safe, inexpensive, and most importantly, very effective. The number of cases of cervical cancer in the US has dropped by more than half over the pas...

Vascularized lymph node transfer is an innovative new surgical procedure used to treat lymphedema, a common condition for patients who have had their lymph nodes removed during the course of cancer treatment.Symptoms of lymphedema include fluid retention, t...

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...