The staging process should begin during an office visit. The history of the patient’s illness and the physical examination often provide important clues about the tumor and whether it has spread. Some cancers can be seen, some can be felt, and examination m...

My name is Donna Piunt. I am a fun-loving, animated, fifty-some-year-old woman who has been happily married to a wonderful and supportive man for 30 years. We have two beautiful daughters who are in their twenties. I have always had a heart to help people a...

 Fox Chase researcher Alfred G. Knudson Jr., MD, PhD, was recently inaugurated into the first class of the Fellows of the AACR Academy at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, held in Washington, D.C. The inaugural group of fellows of the academy con...

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 ...