A Call to Action: Engaging Adults in Clinical Trials
It’s a stunning disparity: Sixty percent of children with cancer are in clinical trials, compared with only about 6 percent of adult cancer patients. That low level of engagement holds true for adults...
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Mayo Clinic Lauded as One of Nation’s Best Hospitals in U.S. News & World...
How Mayo Clinic specialties have fared in U.S. News rankings over the years. Mayo Clinic ranked near the top of the 23rd U.S. News & World Report annual America’s Best Hospital list, earning the...
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Mayo Clinic Cancer Center to be Consolidated on Phoenix Campus
Mayo Clinic has been granted approval for construction of a 217,200 square-foot building on its Phoenix campus, a major expansion that will create a single-site, integrated Cancer Center. Mayo Clinic...
View ArticleMayo Study: Exercise Can Help Cancer Patients, but Few Oncologists Suggest It
Numerous studies have shown the powerful effect that exercise can have on cancer care and recovery. For patients who have gone through breast or colon cancer treatment, regular exercise has been found...
View ArticleJoin Us for an Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Twitter Chat
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, held to draw attention to the nation’s leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers and the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women. Mayo...
View ArticleMayo Clinic Physicians ID Reasons for High Cost of Cancer Drugs, Prescribe...
A virtual monopoly held by some drug manufacturers in part because of the way treatment protocols work is among the reasons cancer drugs cost so much in the United States, according to a commentary by...
View ArticleMelanoma Risk Rises With Transplants, Lymphoma
Melanoma is on the rise nationally, and transplant recipients and lymphoma patients are far likelier than the average person to get that form of skin cancer and to die from it, a Mayo Clinic review...
View ArticleNew Treatment for Recurrent Glioblastoma
Mayo Clinic in Arizona is the first and only clinical center in the Southwest to offer a new treatment that disrupts the growth of recurrent glioblastoma brain tumors. The new treatment features the...
View ArticleMetastatic Melanoma and Pregnancy
The number of melanoma cases has been growing steadily in recent decades. Since the 1970s, it is estimated that, on average, the number of malignant melanoma cases has increased 10 percent every year...
View ArticleCancer Patients May Not be Getting Adequate Care for Debilitating Fatigue
Many people who have been through cancer and its treatment have trouble with their recovery because of severe, debilitating fatigue that can last for months or even years. But, according to a recent...
View ArticleGene Variations that Predict Chemo Side Effects
Seemingly benign differences in genetic code from one person to the next could influence who develops side effects to chemotherapy. A Mayo Clinic study identified gene variations that can predispose...
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