Should You Freeze Eggs or Embryos Before Cancer Treatment?
This decision comes down mostly to where you are in life right now, your relationship status and what you actually want for building a family later, more than one option being medically superior to the other. Both egg freezing and embryo freezing are genuinely...
How Quickly Does HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Spread?
Faster than hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, the kind fueled by estrogen or progesterone, but not as fast as triple-negative, which sits at the more urgent end of things. The reason comes down to one protein. HER2 normally helps tell cells when to grow, and...
Debulking Surgery vs Chemotherapy First for Ovarian Cancer?
For advanced ovarian cancer, there’s no fixed rule about which comes first, surgery or chemo. It really comes down to how far the disease has spread and whether a patient can handle a major operation right out of the gate. Some women go straight into debulking...