Summer 2007

Health insurance resources for cancer survivors.

A cancer survivor's health insurance picture may change under various job scenarios.

What does Medicare cover when it comes to screening for colorectal cancer?

Despite the gains noted in the overall number of Medicare patients undergoing colonoscopy, researchers continue to see differences in colorectal cancer screening rates among certain groups, particularly minorities.

A timeline for the development of awareness about cancer survivorship.

Beauty shopping for survivors and patients undergoing cancer treatment.

Fast facts about Richard Roundtree and his battle with breast cancer.

Patients log on to access medical records and talk with doctors.

What happens to cancer tissue and why it's so valuable to researchers.

Patients face how cancer will define them once treatment ends.

When caregivers feel they have no choice, the challenging role can take its toll.

Minimally invasive technologies transform the landscape of cancer surgery.

Dana Reeve's death revealed the other face of lung cancer.

A portal is a specialized website with a heap of helpful features for doctor patient communication and following a few guidelines and tips on how to use a portal can help.

Researchers point to several cancer treatments and tests that emerged from tissue specimens and predict more will follow.

Companies and public banks collect and store blood from the umbilical cord and placenta for stem cell transplants to treat blood disorders such as leukemia or lymphoma.

Exposing the ethical dilemmas of clinical trials reveals a balance between researchers, drug companies, and patients.

A cancer survivor doesn’t consider surviving cancer a personal victory, but is grateful for each day.

What's to blame for lung cancer in people who never smoked, and what that means for treatment and survival.

Gender plays a role in caregiving experience: male caregivers often deal better with physical rather than psychosocial support, whereas the opposite may be true for women.

Young adults with cancer create a movement through music, and they’re taking it on the road.

Cancer—the uninvited teacher— leaves a new understanding of what’s important.

Readers respond to past articles on the age factor, men as caregivers and advocates, and online information resources.

Drug companies’ advertisements promoting their wares directly to consumers have soared since 1997.

What patients eat may boost energy.

Patients honor their oncology nurses.

Minimally invasive techniques help detect and diagnose cancer earlier.

Surgeons learn new minimally invasive and robotic surgery techniques to remove and find early-stage tumors.

Terminal cancer patients whose tumors don’t respond to standard treatment have limited options, especially those with aggressive cancers that have become resistant to various treatment regimens.