Dr. Frederick Greene, our Consulting Medical Officer has leveraged his extensive surgical experience and his ongoing editorial experiences with the AJCC and CoC to drive several initiatives for CRStar - including the industry's first podcast focused on Cancer Registry.
One of the exciting new initiatives being developed at my cancer program is the creation of a stand-alone radiation oncology center which will house a proton therapy unit. Although the concept of treating cancer with protons has been increasing over the last decade, there has been a paucity of these dedicated units throughout the United […]
Cancer is an elusive disease – one that can hide from our body’s immune defenses and even hijack those defenses for its own purposes. To battle the disease, systemic treatments have long relied on the twin cudgels of chemotherapy, to poison the cancer cells and radiation, to blast them to death. The treatments can be […]
Each year we frequently hear that a word, color, or child’s name is chosen as the leading example and most frequently used in each of these categories. It is certainly true that when it comes to “cancer theories” over the last two or three years, the term “microbiome” is the winner. The concept is that […]
March is “Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month” so it is appropriate to include some clinical facet of this malignancy in this month’s “Clinical Corner.” All of us will see many scientific reports and articles in the lay press this month that highlight the importance of colorectal malignancy. It is imperative to remember and promote the truism […]
Advances in precision medicine are taking place at an unprecedented rate. Precision medicine is defined by the NIH as "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person." This approach will allow the development of screening, treatment and prevention strategies for a […]
