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To offer hope and longer life to patients with all types of cancer, Karmanos offers the latest types of therapy through our clinical trials program. Through clinical trials, we are creating new knowledge about how therapies fight cancer and provide national leadership in testing these new therapies.
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We listen to you to design a plan that provides you with respect, compassionate care and is responsive to your emotional and practical concerns.
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University will host the Second Annual Lung Cancer Symposium on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. The event includes presentations from leading experts in the field of thoracic oncology, including Nasser Hanna, M.D., from Indiana University; Saiama Waqar, M.D., MSCI, from Washington University; Jay Lee, M.D., from University of California Los Angeles; Jyoti Malhotra, M.D., MPH, from City of Hope; and Antoinette Wozniak, M.D., FACP, FASCO, from the Lung Ca...
Cancer Today Immunotherapy treatments can provide hope and more time for patients who face cancer, like Joy Mousseau. She was receiving a colonoscopy, but the cancer screening couldn’t be completed because a large mass was found. Emergency surgery led to the removal of what turned out to be a cancerous tumor in her colon, but in a proactive move to have Mousseau do a chest X-ray to see if the cancer metastasized, cancer was found in her lung that was unrelated to the colon cancer. Mousseau sought a seco...
HealthCentral Hirva Mamdani, M.D. , medical oncologist and leader of the Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary Team at Karmanos, explained how immunotherapy works when treating non-small cell lung cancer, who is usually a candidate for this treatment, and how this infusion therapy differs from chemotherapy. Read the article here .