Biosimilar Drugs & Breast Cancer

bctt on November 1, 2018

A biosimilar drug is a treatment that is highly similar to and that has the same efficacy as an approved biologic medicine. To date, one biologic has been approved for breast cancer care. More are expected.

Below you will find a podcast, video and article that can help you understand what biosimilar drugs are, how they are prescribed, and why they have the potential to decrease the cost of cancer treatments.

CRISPR & Cancer

bctt on August 1, 2018

CRISPR is short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. And if you follow science news, you’ve been hearing it a lot lately. What do you need to know about CRISPR and cancer?

First, we’ve got a Wired video that explains CRISPR in 5 different ways, so you, too, will know what everyone’s talking about. Next up is an article on how CRISPR might be used to treat cancer. And after that, there’s two articles on the recent finding that CRISPR results in more DNA damage than initially thought–and may cause cancer.

Chemo, Second Opinions & Disability Insurance

bctt on July 1, 2018

There’s many ways to hear from the experts. In this OncLive video, you can hear Joyce O’Shaughnessy, MD, talk about chemotherapy options for patients with metastatic breast cancer.

On Living Beyond Breast Cancer, you can read this Ask the Expert Q&A wtih William Gradishar, MD on how to get a second opinion.

And in this webinar from SHARE, you can learn about options for disability insurance from Caroline L. Bersak, from the Family Center’s Legal Wellness Institute.