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Better At-Home Cancer Care Amid COVID-19 Starts with Being a HOPER!

The COVID-19 pandemic still affects thousands around the country daily. For cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers, navigating the patient journey and managing their condition may now seem more difficult: being immuno-compromised, being…

Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Cancer

If you could find out if something was wrong so you could solve it right away, would you take that opportunity? When an ‘error’ doesn’t get fixed in our DNA, Microsatellite Instability (MSI) happens, and this could lead to cancers,…

What to do after you find a lump in your breast, and more: The Breast Cancer Map

Breast cancer affects nearly 25,000 women in the country yearly. But breast cancer awareness in the Philippines needs to go deeper if we want to make a change. Women, especially, need to be made more aware of their breast cancer symptoms,…

List of Hospitals Around the Philippines Accepting Cancer Inquiries

Best Oncologists in the Philippines: Philippine Society of Medical Oncology (PSMO) Uncertainty has been a recurring theme surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. At the beginning of the outbreak, there was very little credible…
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What to expect during Immunotherapy

Written by MSD in the Philippines What’s it going to be like? Testing In many cases of non-small cell lung cancers and gastric cancers, the first step is to undergo PD- L1 testing for the medical oncologist to determine the best…