MedStar Health News

(Washington, D.C.,) April 17, 2018- For the first time, cancer patients in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region have access to the latest cancer-fighting technology, proton radiation therapy, now...

WASHINGTON — Family history of breast cancer continues to significantly increase chances of developing invasive breast tumors in aging women — those ages 65­ and older, according to research published...

WASHINGTON -- MedStar Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare system across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, has named Louis M. Weiner, MD, as director of its MedStar Georgetown Cancer...

WASHINGTON — When combined with an already FDA-approved chemotherapy, a novel agent developed by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, appears to halt the ability of Ewing sa...

Can Talcum Powder Cause Ovarian Cancer? What Women Need to KnowWashington, D.C., September 27, 2017 - A handful of multi-million dollar jury awards to women who used baby powder with talcum, and later...