Monitoring Nutritional Status

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.

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.

Among U.S. adults with a history of cancer, 45.8% reported drinking alcohol in the past 30 days in both 2016 and 2024, while drinking declined among adults without cancer, according to a study in Cancer Causes & Control of nearly 4 million adults.

A woman treated for DCIS breast cancer with a double mastectomy shares why her smoother recovery left her with survivor guilt and feeling like an impostor.

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.

A breast cancer survivor shares how cancer turned gratitude into an everyday practice and why it's OK when the holidays bring both joy and grief this year.

HealthCare.gov open enrollment runs Nov. 1, 2026, to Jan. 15, 2027, and the 2027 out-of-pocket ceiling rises to $12,000. Here's what people with cancer should check before picking a plan.