A growing body of evidence is pointing to the obvious ways in which climate change impacts the environment. But those of us who study the impact of climate change on health have noted that the long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns also have not-so-obvious, downstream health implications, specifically for cancer.
The past two decades have been a golden age of discovery in genetics and cancer research. Using fast, affordable DNA sequencing, scientists have identified scores of gene mutations associated with cancer and developed highly effective drugs to target them.
A journey through cancer treatment can be grueling, unforgiving, and treacherous for both patient and physician. But what happens when a pregnancy complicates the treatment?
The American Cancer Society’s key stakeholders are people with cancer and their families.
Last week’s Supreme Court decision to overrule Roe v. Wade returned the power to regulate reproductive health to individual states.
Roe v. Wade is about more than just abortion.
The plenary session at the ASCO 2022 annual meeting saw that rarest of things at a scientific conference: a standing ovation.
We hoped that our city might be “the last place this ever happened.”
Before May 14, 2022, if you mentioned Buffalo, NY, my mind would have taken me back to the city I knew in the 1960s. I grew up there. I was a kid from the ‘hood whose grandmother instilled messages about living a life based on grace and humility from day one. I was a Head Start kid surrounded by people who believed in the power of providing possibility. I was a kid from the poor, Black neighborhood that bordered the poorer, Black neighborhood, but I was rich in the experiences that earned me an acceptance letter to the University of Notre Dame where I got the foundation I needed to go to medical school. It is Buffalo, however, where I got the foundation I needed for life.
Tuesday began a typical day in May in South Texas for me as executive director of the Mays Cancer Center. It was a lovely sunny day for late spring, and at our center we were focused, as we are each day, on the core mission we have had for almost 50 years—to decrease the burden of cancer in San Antonio, South Texas and beyond.
