In this week’s episode of CURE Talks Cancer, we spoke with Matt Lashey, creator and CEO of the chemoWave app, which is designed to manage cancer symptoms and conditions by keeping track of a patient’s overall well-being to understand how their experiences may be related to feeling better or worse during treatment.
Eighty-nine percent of caregivers of young adult colorectal cancer survivors are depressed because they can’t take the pain away, according to findings from the Raymond Foundation, an advocacy organization that aims to eradicate colon cancer.
I learned a lot during my time as a caregiver, and plan to carry that over in my career as an oncology nurse.
Remission may put an end to the disease, but it does not always stop the feeling of being lost.
I had my own complete life external to cancer. I also had my life within the constant reality of cancer.
November is National Family Caregiver month. Let's give the caregivers the shout out they deserve!
November is National Family Caregivers Month. CancerCare’s Caregiver Program Coordinator, Carly O'Brien, OSW-C, LCSW, shares her thoughts on why it’s important to have an awareness month dedicated to caregivers, and the importance of acknowledging the work that caregivers do.
Surviving cancer just got easier, thanks to these angels.
Emotional care - just like life-saving treatment - is critical to survival.
Although they bring devastation to the whole community hit, catastrophes, such as Tropical Storm Harvey and Hurricane Irma, introduce a new level of difficulty for patients who are being treated for cancer.
Screening cancer caregivers for symptoms of depression could alert them to steps to offset the worsening physical health which caregivers often experience.
Researchers found that caregivers have their own concerns and issues when their loved one is transitioning from being a patient in active treatment to a cancer survivor.
In the past 30 years or so, there has been a transition in this country for those diagnosed with cancer. Not very long ago, a diagnosis of cancer meant being admitted to the hospital to wait out the final days in a haze of morphine.
