1. CHEMOTHERAPY AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT? Have you been just prescribed chemotherapy? This means that your doctor needs you to start taking medications for treating your cancer. Your doctor will explain how chemotherapy keeps a check on the spread of cancer....

Getting treatment for breast cancer requires commitment. It’s not just about the moral support that is needed. It costs a lot to get the treatment that is required by a breast cancer patient. The financial constraint that the disease puts...

A Federal appeals court ruled on 5-2-06 that terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to obtain experimental drugs before the Food and Drug Administration has approved them. The court stated that dying patients have a basic "right of self-preservation,”...

Use this glossary to find the definition and pronunciation of medical terms relating to cancer. Click a letter for specific alphabetic choices. A B C D E F G H I-K L M N O P Q-R S T U-Z...

On Wednesday, cloud computing company Salesforce unveiled a new health care platform that aims to improve patient engagement and care by leveraging data from various sources, MedCity News reports (Versel, MedCity News, 9/1). Tool Details Salesforce Health Cloud is a patient...