Latest Cancer News

Painters May Have Higher Risk of Bladder Cancer
(07-28-2010)
Occupational exposures appear to increase bladder cancer risk in painters, according to a study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Workers in certain occupations may face an increased risk of cancer due to exposures that they ... 

FDA Advisory Committee Recommends that Avastin No Longer Be Approved for Breast Cancer
(07-28-2010)
CC Archive: Breast Cancer Metastatic, FDA news The Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted 12 to one that Avastin® (bevacizumab) in combination with paclitaxel should no ... 

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Regimen Promising for Metastatic Penile Cancer
(07-27-2010)
A neoadjuvant (before surgery) combination of Taxol® (paclitaxel), Ifex® (ifosfamide), and Platinol® (cisplatin) produced clinically significant responses in patients with bulky regional lymph node metastases from penile cancer, according to the results of a study ... 

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Locations

Longstreet Cancer Center
705 Jesse Jewell Parkway
Third Floor
Gainesville, GA 30501
phone: (770) 297-5700, (866) 833-9029
fax: (770) 718-1877

Toccoa Cancer Center
1656 Falls Road
Toccoa, GA 30577
phone: (706) 886-5353
fax: (706) 886-3825

 

Oncologists/Hematologists

· Charles H. Nash, III, MD, F.A.C.P.
· Richard J. LoCicero, MD
· Anup K. Lahiry, MD
· Timothy Mitch Carey, MD