
Using some simple reminders that life is still happening can help put cancer anxiety and fear back where they belong.

Using some simple reminders that life is still happening can help put cancer anxiety and fear back where they belong.

Ultra-processed foods include items such as packaged bread products, sweet and savory packaged snacks, industrialized desserts, highly processed and/or preserved meat products, instant noodles and soups and other shelf-stable items, which usually have a high sugar, oil and/or fat content.

I am not a very outdoorsy person, yet I can use nature to calm my cancer worry brain.

Hodgkin lymphoma survivors may be more likely to develop subsequent estrogen receptor (ER)-negative or -positive breast cancer compared to the general population.

Rick Boulay, a gynecologic oncologist and classically trained singer, will host a performance to raise money for cancer charities.

Just surviving can be an up-and-down experience.

One out of three men with breast cancer does not receive adequate treatment, according to recent study findings published in Annals of Oncology.

Do not stop after you create your medical team. Create a support team for yourself, too.

When the doctor-patient relationship is compromised, it's sometimes necessary for a change.

In the big picture, my cancer experience - as harrowing and as close to death as it gets - dwarfs in comparison to the metastatic spread of gun violence in the United States.

Cancer offers a number of opportunities to be in pain, not only during treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but also from late effects such as peripheral neuropathy.

To help educate patients and enable health care teams to effectively manage these side effects, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) issued new guidelines on understanding and managing immunotherapy-related toxicities.

Our children learn our cancer lessons as we do.

Patients with multiple myeloma who are eligible for stem cell transplantation should still be considered for high-dose therapy (HDT) even in the novel agent era, according to the authors of a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology.

There is no doubt that cancer can be costly, but there are some things you can do to help lessen the financial impact of the disease.

An abnormal protein found in the blood – called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) – may lead to multiple myeloma progression, even after 30 years of disease stability, according to study results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Individual advocates and larger organizations offer hope as they help us understand what future treatments are in the pipeline.

The only person who can stop the fears and anxiety that cancer brings to your life is you. If you allow those thoughts to take over, you get in your own way of enjoying your life.

Tailored survivorship care plans (SCPs) may be beneficial for survivors of head and neck cancer, according to recent research.

After a cancer diagnosis and treatment, one may question when they will actually start to feel “normal” again, whatever that may be. The Ovarian Cancer Prognosis and Lifestyle (OPAL) study set out to help women with ovarian cancer to understand just that.

It's hard to stop comparing our sick bodies to the people around us, but once we do, as both patients and caretakers, we learn to honor our own experiences and value ourselves in new and beautiful ways.

When her sister had hit another roadblock in her treatment, Kim found something else – a remarkable young man who changed her perception of caregiving.

FDA approves first treatment approved for stage 3 unresectable non-small cell lung cancer to reduce the risk of the cancer progressing, when the cancer has not worsened after chemoradiation.

Gratitude helps get this cancer survivor through her cancer days, fears and worries.

A recent study showed that patients with head and neck cancer who had greater depressive symptoms had shorter survival, higher rates of chemoradiation interruption and poorer treatment response. However, there are ways to manage these symptoms.

Adolescent cancer survivors can improve fitness, cognition and quality of life through increased physical activity, according to study findings presented ahead of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Cancer Survivorship Symposium.

Sometimes scars from being attacked by a wolf would be much cooler.

Taking the extra time to have the more difficult conversations with your daughter about her breast health and breast cancer risk has the power to greatly improve and extend her own life.

Three years of scans every three months means finding a way to grow and change that's not limited or defined by cancer

Ivosidenib (AG-120) was granted a priority review designation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory IDH1-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a statement from Agios Pharmaceuticals, the company developing the targeted therapy.