Insurance companies deny cancer treatment claims for several reasons: a therapy may be deemed experimental or not yet guideline-concordant, a prior authorization wasn’t obtained, or the plan’s ...

Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

The early diagnosis of lung cancer improves the probability of successful treatment. However, patients and physicians face several difficulties that can considerably delay the diagnostic process. A ...

For some patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers like colorectal and pancreatic cancer, chemotherapy can cause severe, sometimes life-threatening side effects in those who carry certain genetic ...

Kelly Spill didn’t cry when she was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer at age 28. She held her emotions together when her surgeon told her that she might not be able to carry another baby — ...

New Medicaid work requirements force cancer patients to prove their illness prevents work or lose coverage. The post New ...

Clinical trials are the engine of progress in cancer care. Yet despite their importance, most patients with cancer never ...

The Healing Sanctuary gives cancer survivors space to step away from their daily responsibilities and make room for deep ...

The study showed that an experimental pill from the company Revolution Medicines almost doubled metastatic pancreatic cancer patients’ survival times compared with chemotherapy.

A group of investigators led by Cedars-Sinai have developed and successfully tested a new artificial intelligence (AI) method to make launching cancer clinical trials easier and faster. The method ...