Contributors


Valerie Harper

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Valerie Harper Pays Tribute to Our GBM Heroes

Award-winning actress and author Valerie Harper pays tribute to CURE's inaugural class of GBM Heroes.


Kristen Carbone

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Is Genetic Testing Worth the Time?

Before undergoing genetic testing, stop to consider its effect on your daily experience, including your ability to get life insurance.


TAMARA MILLER, M.H.S.

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Funny Business in Cancer Care

Integrating humor into cancer care sparks health benefits for patients and their caregivers.


Trisha Ready

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A Poem for My Neighbor’s Father on Cancer’s Path

Sometimes we meet strangers along the way on this cancer path, with whom we have brief, intimate connections that awaken and humble us anew again.


Dr. Hossein Borghaei

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New Targeted and Immunotherapy Options in Lung Cancer

Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, of Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses emerging treatment options for patients with lung cancer.



David Liu

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Case Study of a 33-Year-Old With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

In this segment, David Liu, shares a case study of a 33-year-old woman with stage 4 colorectal cancer that had metastasized to the liver.


Charlcie Steuble

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Web Exclusive: With Humor and Openness

One parent survivor tells how humor and openness helped her teenagers and her preteen to accept her diagnosis of thyroid cancer.


Patricia Carter, PhD, RN, CNS

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Patricia Carter on the Importance of Sleep

Patricia Carter, PhD, RN, CNS, associate professor, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, discusses the importance of sleep for patients with cancer.


Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation

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Scott Hamilton Shares His Story

On the Today Show, Scott Hamilton share's his cancer story and also gives a look at his book "Frtizy Finda A Hat", a children's book to help parents talk about cancer with their kids.


ELAINE SCHATTNER, M.D., M.A.

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For Patients, Social Media Provides Perks and Perils

A retired oncologist and survivor talks cancer in a digital world.



Elisa Krill-Jackson, MD

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Genetic Testing May Offer More Through Clinical Trial Matching

Genetic testing offers a care team a wealth of knowledge to help them craft treatments, but it also can help match patients to clinical trials for potentially better outcomes.



Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN

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A Shift in Focus for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

Years ago, the goal of head and neck cancer treatment was strictly focused on a cure. Now, there has been a slight change in approach to improve survival rates while preserving quality of life.


Blue Faery

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Blue Faery Grants Liver Cancer Research Award

Dr. Jinsil Seong, Professor at Yonsei University Medical College, is honored for her ground-breaking work in primary liver cancer.


Mark Fuster, MD

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Breathing Easier: Pulmonary Rehabilitation Can Improve Function for Some With Lung Cancer

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a medical program designed for people facing chronic lung disease. It was first implemented for patients with COPD, and since has expanded to include patients with other diagnoses such as pulmonary fibrosis and even lung cancer.




Bill Ramshaw

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Seven 'Sure' Ways to Get Cancer

One cancer survivor looks at all the ways they might have gotten cancer, and wonders if any of those risk factors will factor into recurrence.


Vanessa Caceres

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Vaccine Rindopepimut Shows Benefit in Compassionate Use Study

Investigational vaccine appears to help progression-free survival and overall survival in patients with a type of glioblastoma.


Thomas T. Kochanek

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A Potent Human Antidote to Cancer

An Extraordinary Healers essay honoring Mary L. McKenney, BSN, MSN, NP [Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts]



Patients, survivors

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What Gives Patients and Loved Ones Hope?

It is important that patients and their loved ones stay hopeful during the ovarian cancer journey. We asked attendees of the 2018 NOCC Annual Conference how they keep positive.


Katherine Lagomarsino

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A Breast Cancer Alphabet

In hopes of offering guidance and companionship to others, Madhulika Sikka wrote A Breast Cancer Alphabet, part memoir, part self-help book.


Trevor Maxwell

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Men, Cancer, and the 'S' Word

What happens to the American man -- one who has been taught there is no hurdle he can't handle on his own -- when a challenge comes along that he can't simply fix?


Kathy LaTour

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Putting A Bad Hair Day Into Perspective

"Good luck, and if you can’t keep your hair, just remember it puts a bad hair day in perspective."


Ryan Hamner

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Ways That People Affected by Cancer Can Earn Money

Here, a survivor lists some alternative ways that patients with cancer or survivors in need of flexible employment can earn extra money.



Sherry Cormier, PhD

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If Your Loved One has Terminal Cancer: Four Keys to Help Partners Survive the Ordeal

Here are four keys to surviving the ordeal – especially for partners and caregivers.