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Gateway for Cancer Research Announces Leadership Transition, Positioning Organization for Its Next Chapter of Growth
New Leadership Underscores Organization’s Commitment to Advancing Early-Phase Clinical Trials and Accelerating Breakthroughs for Cancer Patients Worldwide Mr. Richard J Stephenson and Dr. Stacie J. Stephenson, Chairman and Vice-Chair of Gateway for Cancer Research, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated exclusively to funding innovative early Phase I and Phase II cancer clinical trials, today announced a […]
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Personalizing the fight against small cell lung cancer
Personalizing the fight against small cell lung cancer Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a tough and fast-moving kind of lung cancer. Even with chemo, most patients see their cancer come back quickly, and there haven’t been many big breakthroughs in treatment for years. Now, a new clinical trial is trying something different: personalizing the […]
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Helping patients with lung cancer live longer
Helping patients with lung cancer live longer Every year in the U.S., about 40,000 people get a tough form of lung cancer called NSCLC with a KRAS mutation. Even with the best treatments around, most people with this mutation don’t make it past five years. Dr. Gerber at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center recently […]
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Healing with Hope: The Trial That Changed Maddy’s Future
At 17, Maddy thought the ache in her hip was just a pulled muscle from soccer practice. Instead, she learned it was something far more serious—osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer with a grim prognosis for kids her age. The usual treatment for osteosarcoma isn’t gentle. It’s months of high-dose chemotherapy, surgery that can […]
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New Advancements in Treating one of the Deadliest Thyroid Cancers
New Advancements in Treating one of the Deadliest Thyroid Cancers ASCO: Pre-surgical combination therapy boosts survival in patients with rare thyroid cancer MD Anderson News Release May 31, 2025 A pre-surgical combination therapy including pembrolizumab plus dabrafenib and trametinib (DTP) significantly improved survival in patients with rare BRAF V600E-mutated anaplastic thyroid cancer (BRAFm-ATC) compared with […]
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Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
Rewiring Hope: T-Cells Take on Brain Cancer Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever His brain tumor was a hopeless case. Then an experimental medicine made it melt away. July 15, 2024 – One morning at the end of April 2023, Marcela Maus, a cancer researcher at Mass General in Boston, got a call from her […]
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Understanding Different Types of Cancer
Understanding Different Types of Cancer Approved by Hunter Patton-Gentert, PharmD Cancer, a disease that can manifest in virtually any part of the human body, holds a daunting position as the second leading cause of death in the United States, only surpassed by heart disease. The CDC reports a staggering number of over 600,000 people losing their […]
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Experts urge study of psilocybin, other psychedelics for cancer-related distress
Experts urge study of psilocybin, other psychedelics for cancer-related distress By Jennifer Southall for Healio (Healio, August 17, 2023) The prevalence of distress among women with late-stage gynecologic cancers calls for well-designed studies to assess the safety and efficacy of psychedelics for this patient population, according to authors of a published commentary. Psychedelics — specifically […]
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Cancer Treatment Options
Common Types of Cancer Treatments Approved by Hunter Patton-Gentert, PharmD Just like there’s no single type of cancer, there’s also no single type of cancer treatment. Treatments vary depending on the type of cancer, cancer stage, and other factors. If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer, then it’s helpful to understand the […]
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A Guide to Cancer Staging
What Are the Stages of Cancer? Approved by Hunter Patton-Gentert, PharmD Cancer comes in a variety of forms and may affect each individual person differently. To determine the right treatment methods, doctors use “cancer staging” to gauge the extent and severity. What is Cancer Staging? Cancer staging is used to describe: The size of the primary […]