Metastatic/Chronic Cancer

When cancer spreads to another place in the body, it's called metastatic cancer. A diagnosis of metastatic cancer no longer means having no options. Today, metastatic cancer patients, as well as chronic cancer patients who remain on treatment to keep cancer at bay, lead active lives.

Dancing In Limbo

BY KATHY LATOUR

Three women share the uncertainty of living with metastatic breast cancer.

Palliative Medicine

The New Specialty in Cancer Care

BY JOANNE KENEN

Palliative care is catching on in centers across the country, improving quality of life for patients along the way.

Long-Term Effects

Down to the Bone

BY PAUL ENGSTROM

Improvements in reducing cancer-related bone pain include new drugs, innovative ways to deliver radiation, and surgery to repair bone.

Use As Directed

BY LAURA BEIL

As more cancer drugs become self-administered, why aren’t patients taking their medicine?

Beneficial Risk

BY JO CAVALLO

Questions about the safety of approved drugs has the FDA poised to reform. But with cancer patients willing to accept a higher level of risk, what will changes mean for them?

Can The Patient Reduce Caregiver Guilt?

BY MICKEY GOODMAN

Tips on how terminally ill patients can help caregivers and surviving family members move on without guilt.

Confronting Death

BY JO CAVALLO

Understanding how and why people approach death differently.