American Society of Clinical Oncology

As cancer incidence rates rise internationally, a larger percent of patients require research through clinical trials and treatments to cure their cancer. The National Cancer Institute, the primary federal agency for cancer research in the United States, defines cancer as “a collection of related diseases… [in which] some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues” (“What Is Cancer?”). Cancer is the leading cause of death for children ages 0 to 19 in the U.S. In 2015, researchers predict that doctors will diagnose at least 15,700 children with cancer, and the number of diagnoses will continue to increase by .6 percent in the next year (“Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Statistics”, 6). Approximately…

As I watched Savannah Hart accept the annual New York City perseverance award with a standing ovation from the audience on TV, I lost it. That moment was the last straw. Savannah Hart is loved by the entire world. Little kids all across the nation look up to her. She singlehandedly discovered the cure for cancer while devoting her life to helping the school districts of New York City and the education system in Africa. Nevertheless, she does all this while coping with a serious heart…

enema, Flexible sigmoidoscopy, Guaiac-based fecal occult blood test, Fecal immunochemical test, and a Stool DNA test (American Cancer…

Wendy S. Harpham, M.D. is a doctor of internal medicine, 25-year cancer survivor, best-selling author, and nationally recognized speaker who was born, raised, and educated in Upstate New York. After moving to Texas in 1979 to complete her post-graduate training, she opened a solo practice at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in 1983, where she developed teaching tools to educate her patients about their illnesses and treatments. In 1990, Dr. Harpham was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.…

Introduction Mitra Biotech is an Indian-American venture founded in 2009. Mallik Sundaram co-founded Mitra Biotech. He serves as the President and CEO of Mitra Biotech since its inception. The aim of Mitra Biotech has been to become a partner of choice to global pharmaceutical and biotech companies. They wanted to support new drug development as they navigate from late discovery to preclinical and clinical stages. Their objective is to enable rational drug discovery and personalized cancer…

Pediatric Oncology: The Meaningful Need of a Pediatric Oncologist Every year, 15,780 children between the ages birth and eighteen years receive a diagnosis of cancer. Approximately 1 in 285 children will receive a diagnosis before the age of twenty. Pediatric oncologists remain vital to the adolescent population because they provide different methods of treatment for cancers, manage advanced technology to find cancers, and help sick children feel at home with decorations of many characters in…

previously determined, the need for increased infection prevention is based on the number of patients in outpatient chemotherapy settings that have incurred neutropenic fever during treatment due to increased risk of infection. According to the American Journal of Infection Control, the group of health care workers in the outpatient oncology setting had been exposed to over 26 viruses including HIV, HBV and HVC (AJIC, 2016). It is evident that infection lives in these settings, controlling them…

studies on how the loss of a sex chromosome will lead to the likeliness of cancer in males. Research done by members of the American Society of Human Genetics has shown that men of older ages actually have a higher mortality rate…

a non-profit organization that has raised $569.4 million to support clinical and translational research at medical institutions worldwide (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation). The Breast Cancer Research Foundation was founded in 1993 by Evelyn Lauder. She is accredited with coming up with the use of the pink ribbon to symbolize breast cancer. Mrs. Lauder’s foundation according to About BCRF, is the only organization with an “A+” rating from Charity Watch. The foundation also received a 4-star…

which is close to my heart. I have personally witnessed the benefit of clinical research and its effect on patients and their families. My mother has lived with breast cancer for the last eleven years and metastatic breast cancer for almost seven years. Through my mom, I have seen the development of oncology from chemotherapy to targeted therapies to treatments on the horizon such as immunotherapy. I have found the continual creation and development of new drugs as a source…