Lenalidomide, also known as its trade name Revlimid, is currently a mainstay in multiple myeloma treatment. In newly diagnosed patients, standard doses of lenalidomide, in combination with other ...
If you have responded well to induction and consolidation therapy, you'll enter maintenance therapy as the final final phase of treatment in an effort to maintain a cancer-free status. Maintenance ...
Radiation therapy for prostate cancer offers a spectrum of effective and safe options tailored to each individual’s clinical situation and personal preferences. From traditional external beam therapy ...
The most important tool physicians use to monitor you after prostate cancer treatment is a blood test that measures something called prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, levels. However, a spike in PSA ...
Hormone therapy, also known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), is the foundation of treatment for advanced prostate cancer and works by reducing or blocking testosterone, which fuels cancer growth ...
A groundbreaking targeted radiation therapy is reimagining how oncologists approach metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Pluvicto (lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan) belongs to ...
PARP inhibitors are a newer class of oral therapies for advanced prostate cancer that target faulty DNA repair mechanisms. This class of drugs is particularly effective at treating cancers that have ...
Metastatic prostate cancer means the disease has spread beyond the prostate, most often to the bones. While this generally requires systemic therapy (or therapy that treats the whole body), radiation ...
Radical prostatectomy, or the removal of the prostate gland, remains a highly effective and widely used treatment for localized prostate cancer. When patients undergo robot-assisted laparoscopic ...
After treatment for prostate cancer, you will be monitored regularly with a PSA blood test. However, a rising PSA level doesn’t always mean cancer has returned. If higher levels of PSA are detected, ...
An innovative and rapidly advancing treatment that offers significant promise for certain patients with advanced prostate cancer is radioligand therapy. You might hear it discussed as “targeted ...
Helen Lambin, who is almost 90 years old, has approximately 100 tattoos all over her body Known in her Chicago neighborhood as Granny Ink, she only got her first tattoo at the age of 75 to find joy ...