Insurance companies deny cancer treatment claims for several reasons: a therapy may be deemed experimental or not yet ...

Navigating the healthcare process can be overwhelming, especially when dealing with a serious illness like cancer. At ...

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 health system's GRACE program combines genomics, imaging data and clinical workflows to make personalized risk assessment part of everyday practice.

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 — ...

On top of dealing with what may be painful and stressful medical treatment, cancer patients sometimes find themselves befuddled and burdened by awkward gifts or gestures from friends and family ...

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

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 ...