Paul Engstrom

Patients often find clinical trial restrictions make it difficult to participate.

Tips on finding credible cancer information on the Internet.

To benefit research, tissue repositories must be accountable.

Learn more about donating tumor tissue.

Newer and better supportive care days to control side effects are making treatments easier for patients.

Innovator Russell Portenoy, MD, helped bring awareness to the importance of palliative care in cancer patients.

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

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

Cancer patients commonly fear the possible side effects of treatment, but here are some ways to conquer that fear.

The debate about electronic health care tools and patient privacy shows no sign of ending soon.

Proactive strategy has patients taking preventive steps to protect their bones during therapy.

Physicians assess bone mineral density (BMD) to monitor the impact of cancer therapy—especially hormone modifying treatments and aromatase inhibitors—on patients’ bones over time, and to diagnose osteoporosis and determine who should be treated for it.

New drugs to prevent osteoporosis are being studied and may effectively protect the bones of cancer patients with and without bone metastasis from treatment induced bone loss and osteoporosis.

Patients benefit from ease and success of modern breast cancer screening.

The mainstays of screening for recurrent breast cancer remains physical exams and mammography, although researchers are looking for better ways to predict and find recurrences.