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Healthy Habits
Go With Your GutCan eating yogurt reduce your risk of developing lung cancer?
by Karen Olsen
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Healthy Habits
The ABCs of CBDUnderstanding of the effects of cannabidiol on cancer-related symptoms is limited.
by Bradley Jones
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Sound Advice
Spring 2020vol 10 | issue 01
Experts offer advice on getting involved with patient advocacy, expressing feelings to loved ones, and hospice care. -
Forward Look
Managing Opioid-Related ConstipationPatients may be wary of discussing this common side effect.
by Sue Rochman
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Your Cancer Guide
Weighing Treatment Options for Advanced CancerPatients with metastatic disease need to carefully consider risks and benefits of therapies within the context of their goals.
by Hester Hill Schnipper
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When COVID-19 Comes HomeI have brain cancer, and my wife is a health care worker. These are some questions we had to consider leading up to and after her diagnosis with COVID-19.
by Adam Hayden
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What It’s Like to Get a “C” in Graduate SchoolI was afraid that my thyroid cancer diagnosis would derail my graduate school plans. Instead, it helped shape my career path.
by Carly Flumer
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Embracing Palliative Care SoonerStudies show the benefits palliative care can provide to advanced cancer patients, but also highlight inequities in access.
by Jen Tota McGivney
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Caregiving With Confidence
Strategies for Effective CommunicationWhen families work together to provide care for a loved one, communicating can become a challenge.
by Ashley Jones
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Advocacy in Action
Leaving a LegacyTwo mothers, each with a son who died of brain cancer, worked together to increase awareness and acceptance of tumor tissue donation.
by Esther Landhuis
Legislation to speed cancer drug development for children and adolescents requires drug companies to test drugs in children, but trials in people under 18 may take years to generate results.
by Marci A. Landsmann
Understanding Stress and CancerA symposium at the AACR Annual Meeting explores how social factors contribute to elevated risk of cancer in some populations.
by Eric Fitzsimmons
Exploring Amino Acids’ Impact on Tumor GrowthResearchers are investigating how to match specific dietary changes with therapy to impede cancer progression.
by Thomas Celona
Study Shows Minority Participation in Clinical Trials May Be DecliningResearcher speculates that costly genetic testing may be limiting outreach to underserved communities.
by Marci A. Landsmann
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Using Lymphocytes to Attack TumorsSooner rather than later may be the best strategy for using an experimental treatment for advanced melanoma.
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Closing Disparities Through Genetic TestingOlufunmilayo Olopade seeks widespread use of testing to encourage prevention and early detection of deadly cancers.
Learning Medicare’s ABCDs
