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Celebrate Cancer Survivorship

Piedmont Hospital would like to celebrate your continued health and wellbeing during Cancer Survivors Week 2011. Stop by to participate: Monday, Ju  Read Full Story >>

PHOC leads effort with numerous prostate cancer trials

  PHOC leads effort with numerous prostate cancer trials     Great advances have been made in the treatment of prostate cancer in th  Read Full Story >>

New Drug for Treating Patients with Melanoma

New Drug for Treating Patients with Melanoma Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, with over 13 million cases diagnosed in the United States   Read Full Story >>

LESS SURGERY FOR BREAST CANCER

A recent large study by the American College of Surgeons finds that women with small/intermediate size breast tumors who underwent breast conserving su  Read Full Story >>

NEW DRUG FOR ADVANCED BREAST CANCER

Eribulin (HALAVEN) was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for women with advanced metastatic breast cancer. A large study showed   Read Full Story >>

CAN ASPIRIN REDUCE CANCER RISK AND MORTALITY?

The prospect is too enticing to dismiss: a single pill—a cheap one, too—that, when taken regularly, can reduce the risk not only of heart a  Read Full Story >>

View ABC interview: Cancer Genomics: Targeting Treatment to the Patient

Click on the following links to watch the several ABC TV interviews on cancer: Cancer Genomics: Targeting Treatment to the Patient   Read Full Story >>

Striking Out Prostate Cancer through Clinical Trials

When 61-year-old Carl Hays of Milledgeville, Ga., threw the first pitch at the Atlanta Braves game on June 20, he dedicated it to “the man who sa  Read Full Story >>

Prostate Drug Offers Men New Hope

There are few options for men with advanced hormone refractory prostate cancer who have already received standard docetaxel (TAXOTERE) chemotherapy. A   Read Full Story >>

Triple Negative Breast Cancer Has Options

"Triple negative breast cancer has always been with us but we didn't call it as such until a few years ago. The term refers to tumors which do not  Read Full Story >>

Lung Cancer - Early Detection the Key

For years there has been a great debate as to whether lung cancer, the biggest cancer killer in the US by far, can be detected early enough. The though  Read Full Story >>

New Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

Research –making a difference. PHOC is pleased to announce we are the first center in the US to be able to offer a new breast cancer clini  Read Full Story >>

BALLARD - Treat the whole patient

In a recent article, written on June 25th in the Atlanta Journal Constitution titled "Cancer centers revitalize survivors", Dr. Perry Ba  Read Full Story >>

Atlanta's Top Doctor's Award

Dr. Jonathan Bender is one of Atlanta’s TOP DOCS!  Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Bender of Peachtree Hematology Oncology Consultants (PHO  Read Full Story >>