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By Diane Mapes For the immunocompromised and those with disease, social distancing and uncertainty are a way of life. Daily walks, gratitude, and dancing help. You’re washing your hands like crazy. Staying six feet away from people with the sniffles. You don’t know if it’s safe to hug your friends or family, or go to work, or what. You don’t even know if you’ll be alive in a year. It’s scary. …

When U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) announced in December 2019 that he had stage IV pancreatic cancer, he faced the disease as he faced his lifelong struggle for civil rights – with incredible courage. “I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now. This month in a routine medical …

ASCO 2018 offered a wealth of new data that will continue to transform clinical practice and cancer program development. Most important, implementation of the scientifi c advances we learned at ASCO 2018 will improve the length and quality of life of our cancer patients.

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is the organization rewriting the book on how to fight a deadly disease. In the 16 years since our founding, we’ve focused on attacking pancreatic cancer on all fronts.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is pleased to announce invaluable new provider resources for delivering high-quality care to patients with myelofibrosis. Classified as a myeloproliferative neoplasm, myelofibrosis can arise on its own (primary myelofibrosis), or as a progression of polcythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia. For a small number of patients, myelofibrosis …