Your cancer care team is made up of many medical experts. But there’s one more important player to remember: You.Taking an active role in your cancer diagnosis and treatment allows you to feel more in control when things are uncertain. More importantly, it ...
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Updated December 18, 2020If you’re diagnosed with cancer, one of the most important things you’ll learn is your cancer’s stage. It’s a way of describing how much cancer is in your body and where the cancer is located.“That knowledge is crucial since doctors...
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Updated: February 21, 2020If someone in your family has had pancreatic cancer, you may wonder, “Am I at risk for it too?”Some cancers do have genetic ties, and pancreatic cancer is one of them. It is a possible risk factor that shouldn’t be ignored.“Several...
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Urologic oncology surgeons Marc C. Smaldone, MD, MSHP, FACS, and David Y.T. Chen, MD, FACS, now have office hours at Fox Chase Cancer Center’s new Montgomery County location in East Norriton. “Because one of us will be there each week, we can give patien...
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Updated November 10, 2020 Pancreatic cancer is notoriously challenging to diagnose and treat. Now that researchers are learning more about the disease, treatment options are expanding, and The Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at ...
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A recent Fox Chase Cancer Center study showed that 80 percent of men who have cryoablation surgery for recurrent prostate cancer can safely delay the start of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for two or more years and, as a result, avoid the risk of cardi...
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