Learning About Your Prognosis

Many people with pancreatic cancer can't fully digest food. Here's how pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) works, how to take it with meals and snacks, and what side effects to know.

The Whipple procedure is the main operation for cancer in the head of the pancreas. Here is what is removed, what the hospital stay is like, the complications to know about and how eating changes afterward.

Immunotherapy is a mainstay of lung cancer treatment, and its side effects are different from chemotherapy's. Here are five to know, what they feel like and how care teams treat them.

For National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, answers to common questions about how palliative care differs from hospice, who qualifies, what Medicare covers and how to find a program.

Medicare will move ostomy supplies to six national contracts in 2028. Survivors and clinicians say a poor fit can lead to leaks, infection and hospital stays.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network released its first patient guideline written for caregivers on Oct. 27, 2026. The free guide covers emotional support, money, legal questions, medical tasks and caregivers' own well-being.

Three phase 3 trials presented at the 2026 ESMO Congress looked closely at swallowing, daily functioning and blood counts in throat, kidney and colorectal cancer. Here is what they found about living well during and after treatment.

A national survey study of about 200,000 adults, published in Supportive Care in Cancer, found that people caring for someone with cancer had 89% higher odds of frequent mental distress than people who were not caregivers.