Reading time: 5 minutes Maanya Rajasree Katta Introduction If you have delayed a colonoscopy, you are not alone. The preparation is lengthy, the cleanse is uncomfortable, and sedation can disrupt an entire day. Yet, colorectal cancer is among the most preventable cancers when detected early through screening. Fortunately, the screening landscape is changing, and two... Continue Reading →
Reading time: 6 minutes Shashank Gidipally, PharmD. Challenge of Bringing Precision Oncology to Skin Cancer Care in Community Settings In the last decade, skin cancer treatment has gone under a big shift. At first, treatments were limited to surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Now, practitioners have access to targeted genetic therapies and immunotherapies that have dramatically... Continue Reading →
Reading Time: 3 minutes Libby-Ann Harpaul-Sahadeo Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in the body. It is most often used to treat cancer. Taxanes are a class of chemotherapy drugs used to treat many types of cancer, including ovarian, breast, lung, cervical, endometrial, gastroesophageal, and head and neck... Continue Reading →
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