Sexuality and libido are hot topics now. Personal products and erectile dysfunction medications are discussed and advertised on TV, in print, and on the Internet by politicians and celebrities, by elderly couples and young starlets. Cosmo and Women’s Day bo...

At Fox Chase Cancer Center, we strive to strike a better balance between over-treatment of patients with a low risk prostate cancer and under-treatment of those individuals who are likely to succumb to this disease. In 2012, the United States Preventativ...

Current studies are looking at the potential for ketogenic diets to reduce the risk of cancer through glucose starvation of cells and the associated reduction in insulin stimulation of cell growth.The Atkins DietThe Atkins Diet is probably the most popular ...

There is much to be said today about genetic testing and screening for ovarian cancer and prophylactic surgery in the case of BRCA1 mutations. But we need to say more. It can save a woman’s life. And I know because it probably saved mine. My mother passe...

Dr. Patricia Kropf and Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, a researcher at Fox Chase, are testing the next generation of epigenetic therapy, using genes to fight cancer. It’s being funded by Stand Up To Cancer. Stephanie Stahl and CBSPhilly filed a report on the benefits...

Investigators at Fox Chase Cancer Center have a new study available for men with a recent diagnosis of localized prostate cancer (meaning the cancer is contained in the prostate and has not spread). There are a variety of treatment options available for the...