Fox Chase Cancer Center News

Study Finds that Some Women Do Better than Current Staging Guidelines Suggest

PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 7, 2014)—New findings from Fox Chase Cancer Center paint a relatively optimistic picture of women’s chances of surviving a subset of breast cancers that have spread to the chest wall or skin, but not beyond.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 25, 2014)—Fox Chase physicians understand it is important for patients and their family members to receive quick and efficient access to a cancer specialist.  Not only does it help, but it gives them confidence that they are receiving the highest-quality care. For these reasons and more, Fox Chase Cancer Center launched a new Rapid Access Service, which allows patients to be seen within 24 hours of their first call to the Center or the next business day—whether or not they have a definitive diagnosis.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 9, 2014)—There’s much to learn from the recent release of unprecedented amounts of data from the nation’s second largest health insurer, Medicare, but only if interpreted cautiously, write two doctors at Fox Chase Cancer Center in the June 9 online edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Dear Colleagues, As I am sure you have heard, Temple University and Temple Health lost a great friend this weekend with the tragic death of Lewis Katz, who served as a long-time member of the University's Board of Trustees and a member of the Boards of Temple University Health System (TUHS) and Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC).

CHICAGO, IL (May 30, 2014)—Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have carried out the first retrospective analysis of adjuvant chemotherapy’s impact on overall survival in patients with stage III soft tissue sarcomas (STS), adjusted for socioeconomic status and other variables. The findings show that regardless of socioeconomic status and comorbidities, adjuvant chemotherapy improved survival by approximately 23 percent in stage III STS.

CHICAGO, IL (May 30, 2014)—The use of chemotherapy before surgery to remove ovarian cancer has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly among certain patients, according to a new analysis from Fox Chase Cancer Center that will be presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

CHICAGO, IL (May 30, 2014)—Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer often benefit from chemotherapy before surgery to remove the tumor, but a test of one regimen by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center was halted when too many people experienced serious side effects such as heart attacks and blood clots in the legs and lungs.

CHICAGO, IL (May 30, 2014)—More than a quarter of HIV+ patients are also infected with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which may complicate treatment and care decisions after a cancer diagnosis. The specifics of those complications haven’t been well-researched in the past. Results from a new Fox Chase Cancer Center study on this patient population may start filling in that gap.