Autumn Colbert: A Daughter Undaunted
When Autumn Colbert's mother, Patricia Colbert Brown, received a diagnosis of multiple myeloma in October 2011, she didn’t think twice about becoming her mother's caregiver.
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Encouraging Words
Can encouraging words during surgery from the medical team help improve outcome?
Taking Charge of Your Cancer Treatment
Patients on anticancer therapies must assume greater responsibility for their treatment.
Psychological Barriers to Adherence
Communication is key when dealing with barriers of medication adherence.
Alternatives to Adherence?
Alternative medicine is nonadherence at its greatest when it comes to cancer therapy.
Providing Aid and Comfort
New Routine: Caring for those with metastatic disease calls for flexibility, commitment.
Self-Care for Caregivers
Overwhelmed by the job, caregivers often let their own health deteriorate, which can have an adverse effect on their caregiving abilities.
Cancer Patient’s Mental Illness May Be an Added Challenge for Caregiver
Extra attention and frequent conversations with the medical team may help ease challenges.
Improving Communication
Communication is key when caring for a cancer patient with a mental illness.
Letting Go: Saying Goodbye When a Loved One Says It’s Time
How to say goodbye when a loved one says it’s time.
Stressed During Cancer Treatment? Try Meditating
Mindfulness meditation can ease stress during treatment.
Mindfulness Made Easy
Tips for mindful meditation during cancer.
Secret Shame
Caregiver stress can sometimes lead to substance abuse.
Dating After Cancer
When it comes to revealing your cancer treatment results, timing is everything.
Expecting the Unexpected
Early planning can ease financial and insurance issues.
A pain in the bones? Talk to your doctor
It's important to evaluate bone pain because it could indicate a possible recurrence or a side effect of treatment.
Boning Up
Helping bones stay strong after cancer.
Energy Balance
Matching calories consumed to calories burned may reduce your risk of recurrence.
Can Energy Balance Prevent Cancer?
Research suggests that energy balance—maintaining an ideal weight by consuming only as many calories as you expend—can reduce the risk of cancer.
The Promise of Metformin
Metformin, a drug commonly used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, is showing promise in the treatment of certain types of hormone-stimulated cancers, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Prostate Protection
Medicines, lifestyle changes and nutrients may help ward off cancer
Mixing It Up
Food-drug interactions can adversely affect cancer treatment.
Go Fish
Omega-3s studied for cancer prevention
Cancer as a Turning Point
Cancer survivors gather to heal and draw something positive from their cancer experience.
Cancer's Silver Lining
Survivors share the positives of cancer.
Out to Lunch
Strategies for dining out during treatment.
Active Recovery
Physical therapists Leslie Waltke and Beth Rothman talk about the benefits of rehabilitation and exercise during and after breast cancer treatment.
A Shot at Prevention
Vaccination against HPV might someday hold promise beyond fighting just cervical cancer
Letting Your Guard Down
Many breast cancer survivors fail to get regular mammograms.
The Not-So-Funny Pages
The comic strip Funky Winkerbean tackles cancer in a beloved character.