Psychosocial

The cancer experience is different for all of us that is sometimes easy to navigate and sometimes not at all. Yet we all join the same team once we hear the words “you have cancer.” We can help each other to cope.

Staying hopeful when others are dying of the same disease is one of the most challenging aspects of cancer.

Fit older patients can often get the same cancer treatments as their younger counterparts, but additional conditions such as heart disease or diabetes signal the need for caution.

An easy-to-use list to stay calm when the cancer panic hits.

"We can actually improve quality of life," Sharon L. Bober says. "Why wouldn't we want to do that for everyone?"

Sharon L. Bober, director, Sexual Health Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses changes in sexual health as they relate to different treatments for cancer.

Listening to music before undergoing ambulatory surgery for the diagnosis or treatment of breast cancer lessens patients' anxiety levels.