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As stress and anxiety have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, one expert notes how it’s important for patients with cancer to pay attention to their mental health.

Even amid stay at home orders to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, listen to your body and speak to your healthcare professionals when you are worried about a potential for cancer.

As millions of people face a “new normal” during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with cancer can teach others about the resilience needed to face the unknown.

COVID-19 has drastically changed the landscape for patients with bladder cancer, but the new challenges are not insurmountable. CURE had the chance to interview the co-founder of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network to discuss these changes.

Although one non-profit has decided to place fundraising efforts on the back burner since the start of COVID-19, one of the organization’s founding members notes it is still sticking to its mission.

There's a lot of rapidly changing information on COVID-19 and patients need to take their time and find the facts that matter.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network is honoring Bladder Cancer Awareness Month in a slightly different way from previous years.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the country, patients with breast cancer who were scheduled to have reconstructive surgery, or were considering the procedure, have been forced to wait until all elective surgeries can begin again. However, the AiRS Foundation continues to educate women on their options for breast reconstruction.

Although many patients with cancer are concerned about leaving their house during the COVID-19 pandemic, a board-certified psychiatrist highlights that some of his patients with cancer have reported a reduction in their anxieties during the pandemic.

“In 16 seconds, we can really bring our consciousness to the present moment.”

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia are at risk for the worst of COVID-19 symptoms, but going on the cancer journey has prepared them for the pandemic.

Cancer caregivers can already feel isolated and lonely, and with the COVID-19 Pandemic forcing people to stay home it can get worse. But good communication can help create a sense of community and allow caregivers to feel less lonely.

Want to know how the COVID-19 Pandemic is impacting cancer care and what it means for patients with cancer? Let the experts from CURE's webinar fill you in!

Social distancing measures are keeping people apart, but that hasn't stopped some patients with CLL from finding a new sense of community.

As patients begin to look at what’s to come when lockdown measures in place are relaxed a new logistical puzzle will pop for some.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has changed immediate treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but it is also impacting the clinical trials looking to improve the future treatment for these patients.

There are advantages and disadvantages to delaying elective reconstructive breast surgery, according to one expert.

“I’m not going to give up on that just because of this pandemic. Health is most important, as it should be for us cancer survivors.”

Patients with breast cancer have come to terms that the risks of having reconstructive surgery at this time are too great, according to one expert.

“Only you have the power to make your life better,” says a myeloma survivor on living for the moment after a cancer diagnosis.

Sleep is important to everyone, especially for patients with cancer as they recover from treatment. But as many people are currently learning, rest is sometimes hard to come by while navigating the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite the impact that COVID-19 is having on cancer treatment schedules, one expert stresses the importance of staying the course not just for an individual’s benefit, but for the health of others.

A three-year lung cancer survivor discusses the shock of her diagnosis, and the positivity that ensued in her everyday life.

Looking at new data from the phase 3 PEARL trial, Dr. Melissa K. Accordino discusses how the use of CDK4/6 inhibitors could help patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer move away from chemotherapy.

Patients with blood cancers are facing unprecedented challenges to their treatment journeys as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the cancer landscape. Which is why the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is looking to offer its own lifeline to patients.

“I thought, you know what I have control right now: if I'm going to laugh, if I'm going to enjoy my family, or if I'm going to hide in a corner and cry all day. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to let cancer do that to me.”

Dealing with cancer can be a stressful enough experience without having to navigate a worldwide pandemic, as many are doing due to COVID-19. But according to Rob Paulsen, voice actor and throat cancer survivor, the key to making it through each day may be in finding a reason to smile.

“I just want people to know that when they say you have cancer, they are not saying you have a death sentence. You can still live and you can live well.”