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  • Redefined Care: New Appendix Cancer Guidelines

    New consensus guidelines are helping bring more clarity and structure to appendix cancer care. As research advances, understanding tumor differences like HGMA, GCA, and signet ring cell is becoming increasingly important.

  • What Tonight’s Webinar with Dr. John Paul Shen from MD Anderson Will Cover

    Why Appendix Cancer is NOT colon cancer and why that’s important distinction when it comes to treatment If you or someone you love has appendix cancer, you’ve probably heard this phrase before: “We treat it like colorectal cancer.” Tonight’s webinar with Dr. John Paul Shen (MD Anderson) explains why that approach is often wrong and…

  • Can COVID mRNA Vaccines Help the Immune System Fight Cancer?

    What Appendix Cancer Patients and Caregivers Should (and Shouldn’t) Take From Recent Research Every so often, a line in an article makes you pause. Recently, a CURE Today personal story mentioned the idea that COVID vaccination might help the immune system fight cancer. Understandably, that raised questions in the appendix cancer community:Could the COVID vaccine…

  • How Virtual Reality Is Being Studied to Help Manage Pain in Appendix Cancer

    Pain is one of the most difficult — and least talked about — parts of living with appendix cancer. For many patients, especially those with peritoneal involvement, pain isn’t just occasional. It can be chronic, exhausting, and deeply disruptive to everyday life. A new clinical trial from UCLA Health is exploring a surprising but promising…

  • New Clinical Trial: Comparing Two Ways to Give Chemotherapy Inside the Stomach

    A simple breakdown for appendix cancer patients and caregivers Currently Recruiting! There’s a new clinical trial that caught my attention because it’s looking at something so many appendix cancer patients deal with — cancer spreading inside the lining of the stomach area, also known as peritoneal carcinomatosis. This study is trying to answer a question…

  • A New Roadmap to Better Understand and Treat Appendix Cancer

    What patients and caregivers should know about this major research initiative Appendix cancer is rare, and until recently, we’ve had limited knowledge about its causes, how to detect it early, and how to treat it best. That’s slowly starting to change. In early 2025, a team of leading experts from around the world published the…