In 2012, the American Cancer Society estimated the annual number of new esophageal cancers to be 17,460.Surgical resection with radical lymph node dissection, usually performed after a patient receives either preoperative chemotherapy or chemoradiation, is ...

Genetic testing is a blood test that looks for changes, also called alterations or mutations, in genes. These changes cause disease or place someone at higher risk for getting a certain disease, such as cancer. Sometimes these gene changes can be passed fro...

Fatigue, or feeling tired, is a common side effect of cancer treatment. But patients don’t have to lie down when it comes to dealing with it. Fox Chase has a program that teaches patients how to manage fatigue using a multi-faceted approach.“Fatigue is one ...

At the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), April 6-10, 2013, in Washington, DC, Fox Chase researchers presented a series of papers that covered a range of oncology treatments, from breast cancer to a promisi...

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...

Neck dissection is usually recommended to remove cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes of the neck.Cancers spread by dispersing through small channels, captured in lymph nodes that serve as filters. Cancer cells take up residence and grow within lymph n...