Summer 2019

Aptly known as the world’s toughest cancer, pancreatic cancer's destruction often delivers a feeling of hopelessness for patients and their families, with late detection further complicating matters.

Despite a national addiction crisis, opioids remain an appropriate choice for treating severe cancer pain.

Here, a reader shares her experience with dealing with the side effects of hormonal therapy.

Everything about the words “breast cancer” is dark, sad and scary. When you add “metastatic” (stage 4) to those words, there comes an uncontrollable fear that encompasses the mind. To help people cope with this, four African American women started on a journey to educate women of color about the effects and importance of understanding breast cancer.

We owe patients complete information, navigation for decision-making and, of course, more research into this common problem. Initiating public dialogue and education is the first step.

When cancer centers emphasize supportive care, patients, survivors and their families benefit and health outcomes can even improve. In this issue of CURE®, we take you inside a facility dedicated to this kind of care — The Supportive Care Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

This one-stop shop offers patients pain-management strategies, emotional support, nutritional guidance and more.

For patients with Barrett’s esophagus, surveillance, drugs and diet can help prevent the development of cancer.

As the range of treatments expands, patients with esophageal cancer can advocate for the care that’s best for them.

Through a children’s book that describes a fanciful dream, an author/illustrator remembers a youngster lost to cancer — and raises funds to boost research.

A year in the life of a Lynch syndrome previvor includes comprehensive screenings for cancer.

Removing lymph nodes that appear unaffected by ovarian cancer won’t help and might hurt.

Several new surgical options can help reverse or prevent lymphedema by keeping lymph fluid moving through the body.

Collecting data about cancer through registries can help experts detect trends and patterns, leading to better care for patients.

Progress in cancer comes slowly, in bits and pieces and not in sudden bursts of success. And even when “breakthroughs” happen, it usually takes a long time to confirm that the early results actually make a difference.