20 Results Related to "Suzanne B. Evans, MD, MPH"

Immunotherapy works in one of two ways—it can boost mechanisms of the immune system so that it has more strength to fight cancer cells. Or, it can target and destroy certain receptors on cancer cells to prevent them from outsmarting the immune system.

Doctors may decide to interfere with hormone production in order to stop cancer from spreading, slow it down or decrease the odds it will come back.

At your next large family gathering, talking about past cancer diagnoses throughout the family tree could provide valuable insight about possible risks of inherited cancers.

Since breast cancer is far more prevalent in women than men, it's important for men to know the symptoms in order to get diagnosed at an early stage.

About 17,000 new cases of esophageal cancer occur in the United States each year, most of them in men.

Cancer treatment can cause may changes that affect your sexuality. In this video, a gynecologic oncologist discusses a specialized program that can help.

Chronic pain during and after cancer therapies can be extremely difficult. Treatments for cancer-related pain are personalized to the patient.

Patients with breast cancer may require radiation treatment to the breast, chest wall and lymph nodes.

Watch this video to find out more about how radiologists diagnose breast cancer, using mammography, breast ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Digital breast tomosynthesis or 3D mammography helps radiologists like Liane Philpotts, MD, detect breast cancer. Watch this video to learn more.

Radiation therapy is often recommended as a follow-up therapy following breast-conserving therapy. Radiation oncologist Meena Moran, MD, explains radiotherapy.

Hypofractionated radiation therapy is a treatment for patients who have had breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer.

Half of all people with cancer are treated with radiation therapy. It is effective for treating almost all types of cancer in almost any part of the body.

Today's 3D mammography helps give radiologists a more detailed view to better detect breast cancer. The technology also helps reduce false-positive results.

External radiation therapy, also called external-beam therapy (EBT), uses beams of radiation delivered from a machine outside the body to target a tumor.

Cancer of the plasma cells is known as myeloma. Myeloma is the most rare type of blood cancer.

With internal radiation therapy, the doctor places a source of high-energy, radioactive rays (such as seed implants) inside the body close to cancer cells.

Lymphomas are cancers caused by white blood cells that reproduce rapidly and uncontrollably. Two types are Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.