Duke Health Blog
Cancer Care
Read about the innovative approaches taken by Duke doctors to treat cancer -- and the people whose lives have been affected.
No Evidence of Disease Thanks to New Pancreatic Cancer Drug Daraxonrasib
Brad Dugai, 55, underwent chemotherapy and radiation to treat his pancreatic cancer, but the tumors kept coming back. At Duke Health, he joined a clinical tria ...
Family History Leads to Surveillance at Young Age and Finds Early Breast Cancer
Bailey Geason was 27 when doctors spotted cancer in her right breast. She wasn’t shocked; when she was a college freshman, genetic testing confirmed she carrie ...
Adaptive SBRT Modifies and Targets Prostate Cancer in Real Time
Two decades after Patrick Schultea underwent treatment for prostate cancer, his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels began to rise, signaling that the cancer ...
Clinical Trial and Mismatched Cord Blood Transplant Help Toddler Beat Aggressive Leukemia
Sophia Ramirez’s family was told nothing more could be done after two stem cell transplants performed at a hospital near their South Carolina home failed to cu ...
Tarlatamab (Imdelltra®) Offers Hope When Treatment for Small-Cell Lung Cancer Stops Working
A new type of immunotherapy is giving hope to people with advanced small cell lung cancer when chemotherapy and other immunotherapies are no longer effective. ...
Pluvicto® Extends Life of NC Man with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Ned Steele has tried many treatments in the 18 years he’s been living with prostate cancer, but none has worked better than PLUVICTO®. Thanks to the efforts of ...
Whipple Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer
If you have been diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer, the most important decision is where to go for surgery. Up to 30% of people with pancreatic canc ...
How Screening Mammograms Can Save Your Life
You may not feel lucky, but if you are one of the estimated six out of 1000 women diagnosed with breast cancer based on a screening mammogram, you may well be. ...
Understanding Cancer Vaccines: What Are They and How Do They Work?
We all have damaged cells, and our body has robust, built-in systems to detect and destroy damaged or mutated cells before they grow into tumors. Cancer vaccin ...
Chemotherapy Pump Can Treat Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer to the Liver
A chemotherapy infusion pump may be a treatment option for people whose metastatic colorectal cancer has spread to the liver, including those who may have been ...
Early Detection Finds Curable Cancer in Non-Smoker
Kathryn Mathews was concerned about lung cancer after she lost her mother to the disease 20 years ago. A CT scan to detect signs of heart disease found a nodul ...
Facial Plastic Surgery After Skin Cancer Yields Impressive Results
Over the course of a year, Charles Stanley, 77, had skin cancer three times near his eye, where it is tricky to remove, and even more difficult to reconstruct ...