Eric Fitzsimmons

3 weeks ago | brnw.ch | Eric Fitzsimmons

Every week, the editors of Cancer Today magazine bring you the top news for cancer patients from around the internet. Stay up to date with the latest in cancer research and care by subscribing to our e-newsletter. Using a blood test that finds early signs of treatment resistance to guide care for patients with advanced breast cancer can result in a longer time before disease progression and before a deterioration in quality of life compared with discovering cancer progression on a scan.

3 weeks ago | brnw.ch | Eric Fitzsimmons

Challenges & Choices is an ongoing series where we tackle the most difficult questions in cancer care. From finances to end-of-life care, we will explore how you can be prepared with practical information, ways to find emotional support, and stories from people who have been there. WHEN ONCOLOGISTS Deborah Doroshow and Fauzia Riaz met as fellows at Yale Cancer Center in 2019, they discovered they shared a professional concern.

4 weeks ago | brnw.ch | Eric Fitzsimmons

Every week, the editors of Cancer Today magazine bring you the top news for cancer patients from around the internet. Stay up to date with the latest in cancer research and care by subscribing to our e-newsletter. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors find low levels of the HER2 protein in some people with breast cancer and prevent the disease from being miscategorized, according to a study presented May 30 at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago.

1 month ago | brnw.ch | Eric Fitzsimmons

When a public figure shares a cancer diagnosis, the news coverage is often missing key details that can leave readers—particularly those dealing with cancer themselves—confused, anxious or even misinformed, according to research published Feb. 26 in ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology. The study used Google News to analyze articles published between 2010 and 2020 that mentioned cancer.

1 month ago | brnw.ch | Eric Fitzsimmons

Every week, the editors of Cancer Today magazine bring you the top news for cancer patients from around the internet. Stay up to date with the latest in cancer research and care by subscribing to our e-newsletter. Rising cases of extreme weather are forcing patients, clinics and researchers to consider how disasters and accompanying disruptions to treatment affect care. Medscape reported on the ways wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes can keep people from getting to treatment for a week or longer.