Stage 3 Prostate Cancer: What to Expect Stage 3 prostate cancer is an advanced but still treatable form of the disease. Like other types of cancer, prostate cancer is classified in stages based on how far the disease has progressed. Stage 1 prostate cancer means the cancer is still confined to the prostate gland, while […]

Wearable Fitness Trackers May Improve Health in Childhood Cancer Survivors Wearable fitness trackers have continued to grow in popularity in recent years, and they may be feasible interventions to promote fitness in childhood cancer survivors, according to recent research conducted in Australia. “Wearable activity trackers can provide objective and non-biased measures of the level and […]

Seeking to expand targeted therapy for lung cancer Hunting down RIT1-driven lung cancer’s unique vulnerabilities Berger was inspired to seek out new therapeutic targets for lung cancer by the clinical advances seen for therapies that target other lung cancer-associated mutations. She linked several new genes to lung cancer — including mutated RIT1 — while participating in The Cancer Genome […]

Wish Granted: 10-year-old Fortville girl beats cancer and gains a puppy In the offices of Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, tissue boxes are everywhere. The reason is for tears — mostly happy tears. “Eighty percent of our Wish Kids go on to beat their illness and live typical healthy lives,” Katie Ferrell of Make-A-Wish said. […]