Your Journey

Our Favorite Resources for Diagnosis

  • A national nonprofit agency that offers free support, information, financial assistance, and practical help to people with cancer and their loved ones.
    CancerCare

  • Links all ASCO information and materials in addition to giving other communication access to people with all kinds of cancer.
    Cancer.Net

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THE CANCER JOURNEY

Diagnosis

Cancer. In the coming days and weeks you will be required to make life-changing decisions at a time when you are grappling emotionally with the life changes that cancer brings. We are here with information that will help you take control of this time. Breathe, listen, and take charge.

Layman's Terms

BY CHARLOTTE HUFF

Better communication tools help patients improve their health literacy. 

Treatment Anxiety

Never Fear

BY PAUL ENGSTROM

Treatment anxiety can be conquered [and besides, it usually turns out to be unfounded].

Talking With Kids

Straight Talk

BY ERIK NESS

What kids need and want to know when a parent is diagnosed.

Guilt

The Blame Game

BY KATHY LATOUR

Moving past myriad rationales for cancer guilt.

On Their Own

BY MARC SILVER

Going it alone in the fight against cancer.

Renaissance Surgery

BY BEVERLY A. CALEY

Using robotic arms, video cameras, and tiny incisions, cancer surgeons are changing what it means to go under the knife.

The Diagnosis Dilemma

BY MARC SILVER

To tell or not to tell?

A Direct Hit

BY MELISSA KNOPPER

Technology propels radiation therapy to a new status: targeted therapy. 

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