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Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Rapid Progression Through First Line Treatment, What Next
For our Mandarin-speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
General Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Consolidation Radiation After a Good Response to 1st Line
For our Mandarin-speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Immunotherapy Combinations in Advanced Squamous Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Does Immunotherapy Work with Driver Mutations like EGFR, ALK
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Combinations in Advanced Non-Squamous NSCLC
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Articles

Head & Neck Cancers - Frequently Asked Questions
Head & Neck Cancers Frequently Asked Questions Written by Joshua Bauml, MD September 2017 What is it? “Head and neck cancer” is an umbrella term...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Head and Neck Cancer
Disease Learning:
General Head and Neck Cancer
Progress in Understanding DNA Changes in Lymphoma
Malignant Hematology Progress in understanding DNA changes in lymphoma has already provided improved and highly sensitive tests for detecting this...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Blood Cancers
Disease Learning:
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Mantle Cell Lymphoma, General Blood Cancer
Retrospective Data and Real World Evidence: The Poor Stepchild of Clinical Trials?
Many physicians worship evidence-based medicine, which is generally a very good practice that ensures that medical practice isn’t dictated by our...
Cancer Journey:
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer, Blood Cancers, Head and Neck Cancer, Other
Disease Learning:
Clinical Trials
My Top 10 ASCO 2017 Lung Cancer Presentations
Over the next few days, about 30,000 oncologists and other cancer care professionals, along with a growing number of patient advocates, are...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer
New FDA Approval for Zykadia (ceritinib) for ALK-Positive NSCLC: Why I Think It's a Poor Choice for Initial Treatment
The FDA just approved a new therapy for the approximately 4% of patients with NSCLC who have the molecular marker known as an ALK rearrangement. The...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Targeted Therapy, Targeted Therapies – ALK

Community Forum

Keytruda for Adenocarcinoma (NSCLC), first PET-CT result
Hello friends, My mom, (aged 77, Adenocarcinoma NSCLC, Stage 4, EGFR and ALK negative) was diagnosed in 2014, underwent VATS and pleurodesis,...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Lung Cancer, General Lung Cancer, Immunotherapies, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Stage IIIb ALK NSCLC first line treatment
This question is not for a specific patient, it is designed to understand how oncologists would approach this problem. There’s a 50 year old stage...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Targeted Therapies – ALK, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Tough decision between a whole brain radiation vs occipital craniotomy
My wife is experiencing a second time brain tumor recurrence. She had her first occipital craniotomy back in 2011. On late Oct 2013 she began to...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment, Survivorship
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Lung Cancer, General Lung Cancer, Symptoms, Pain Medication, Procedures & Treatments, Maintenance Therapy, Radiation Therapy, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Alternative medicine
My father has been dealing with prostate cancer for a couple of years now and is about to begin treatment. Does anybody have any information or...
Cancer Journey:
Cancer Type:
Disease Learning:
Chemotherapy
Vaxira for stage 4 NSCLC
Has anyone any information on obtaining and using Vaxira, the Cuban drug, for stage 4 advanced NSCLC? Not sure if US citizens can still travel to...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
ANGIOGENESIS, 3rd Line and beyond, Targeted Therapy, Investigational Agents, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer