Updated: February 17, 2020Many people are apprehensive before their first chemotherapy appointment. Preconceived notions and misinformation can add to the stress. “I think it is important to emphasize that the effects of treatments vary enormously depending...

Jean-Pierre Issa, MD, former director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, recently published the results of a phase 2 study comparing the safety and efficacy of two differe...

  Genetic testing and cancer care have a complicated relationship, as recently discussed in Gina Kolata's New York Times piece, "When Gene Tests for Breast Cancer Reveal Grim Data but No Guidance." Kolata discusses the potential for unclear results with ...

  Galina SemenovaGraduate StudentDr. Jon Chernoff’s LabFox Chase Cancer [email protected]  BiographyI grew up in Tambov, Russia, a mid-sized city 300 miles south-east of Moscow, in a rather artistic family where I dreamt of ...

 , chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Fox Chase, will be honored as a fellow of The American Society for Radiation Oncology at the organization’s 59th Annual Meeting held this week, September 24-27, 2017 in San Diego.The Fellows Program, ...

 In honor of Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month in September, Dr. Richard I. Fisher, President and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center, spoke about his seminal paper on the CHOP regimen for the treatment of advanced non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It was publish...