Cancer Treatment & Research - Siteman Cancer Center

Extending its standing as one of the top leukemia programs in the United States, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been awarded an $11.5 million grant to further high-level investigations into leukemia and related blood cancers...

Cancer patients in Missouri, Southern Illinois and beyond will have access to a new generation of proton therapy in early 2020. Known as pencil-beam scanning, the technology delivers extremely precise treatments of proton therapy, a type of radiation...

Childhood and adolescent cancer survival in the United States does not vary by rural/urban residence at the time of diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
“The widespread availability of public health insurance for children and adolescents and a nationwide network of pediatric cancer providers may explain this finding,” said Kimberly Johnson, associate professor and senior author of the study, “Rural/urban...

Radiation therapy for different kinds of cancer can damage the skin, so patients undergoing such treatment often are advised to apply creams or ointments to help relieve any resulting pain and inflammation. However, such patients long have been told...