Contributors


Stuart Kremer, D.O.

Latest:

Come With Me on My Cancer Journey With Trish

An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring PATRICIA L. TUDOR, B.S.N., RN [HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA]


Tammy Wilsford

Latest:

The Oncology Nurse With the Pale Pink Booklet

An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring Lisa Craven, RN [ Carolina Center of Gynecologic Oncology in Charleston, South Carolina ]


Michael D. Becker

Latest:

Author Talks About the Steps Leading Up to His Cancer Diagnosis

Michael D. Becker, cancer survivor and author of “A Walk With Purpose: Memoir of a Bioentrepreneur” discusses how he realized that he had head and neck cancer.


MEYHA SWAROOP, M.S.

Latest:

Preventing Lymphedema Flares in Patients With Breast Cancer

RESEARCHERS ARE RE-EVALUATING WHAT CAUSES LYMPHEDEMA AGGRAVATION.


Patricia Jakel, RN, MN, AOCN

Latest:

Asking the Right Questions as a Patient With Breast Cancer

At the 2020 CURE® Educated Patient Breast Cancer Summit, oncology nurse Patricia Jakel had the chance to discuss the types of questions patients should be asking their care team.


Karen Peterson

Latest:

When Beating Cancer Means Battling the System

When my oncologist wanted to start me on a standard treatment, I asked her why. She said some of her other patients had gotten it. She was basing my life on someone else’s results? This survivor decided to seek other opinions and became her own advocate.


Ed Weinsberg

Latest:

A Couple's Cancer

For one side effect of prostate cancer treatment, it takes both the patient and the partner to overcome it.


Emily Pontz

Latest:

My Angel Nurse

IT IS IN THE DARKEST of moments of one's life that the light is truly able to shine through.


Tracey Gamer-Fanning

Latest:

Finding a Voice for Brain Cancer Survivors

I was given a three- to five-year life expectancy. I told my neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that all I heard was that I could expect more life.


Kidney Cancer Association

Latest:

Navigating Kidney Cancer Treatment During COVID-19

Getting kidney cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Dr Miguel-Angel Perales

Latest:

CAR T-Cell Therapy for Patients with Lymphoma

An overview of the therapies available for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and transformed follicular lymphoma.


PAN Foundation

Latest:

The PAN Foundation Opens New Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Patient Assistance Fund

The PAN Foundation today opened a new patient assistance program for people living with Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, a rare type of blood cancer that originates in the lymphatic system and is characterized by an excess of abnormal white blood cells and proteins called immunoglobulins.


Kathleen Gallagher

Latest:

Data Sharing Is Critical in Advancing Cancer Care

Kathleen Gallagher, MPH, senior director of Health Services Research and Outcomes at the National Patient Advocate Foundation, discusses the importance of data sharing in advancing cancer care.


Anne Falgoust Ott

Latest:

Transcending Cure with Care

The winning entry from CURE?’s 2013 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing essay contest.


Sue Peck

Latest:

Lucy's Eyes

LUCY is an oncology nurse with very special eyes.


Extraordinary Healer

Latest:

Highlights From the 2016 Extraordinary Healer Award Event

Each year, CURE magazine gives readers a unique opportunity to honor an oncology nurse through the Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing.


Sam Rivera

Latest:

Male Breast Cancer Survivor Spreads Awareness: 'Men Have Breasts, Too!'

Sam Rivera, a 47-year male breast cancer survivor, sat down with CURE at the 36th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference to discuss the importance of communicating family health history, to advise men to be proactive about their health and to share his positive experience with the Male Breast Cancer Coalition.


Robert Stern

Latest:

Taking Back Control: Exercise and Nutrition Boost Survivor Well-Being

Survivors find that physical activity and sound nutrition lower health risks and boost well-being.


Beth DuPree, MD, FACS, ABIHM

Latest:

Beth DuPree on What Patients With Breast Cancer Need to Know at Diagnosis

Beth DuPree, MD, FACS, ABIHM, medical director of Integrative Medicine and Wellness and vice president of Holy Redeemer Health System, adjunct assistant professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses what patients need to know the day they are diagnosed with breast cancer.


Elaine S. DeMeyer

Latest:

Exemplifying Excellence in Oncology Nursing

This essay nominates registered oncology nurse Linda Chan for the CURE® 2019 Extraordinary Healer® Award, written by Chan’s colleagues and mentors at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital.


Rita Stoddard

Latest:

Footprints On Our Hearts

Finalist essay for CURE’s 2011 Extraordinary Healer Award contest.


Susan Kreimer

Latest:

Into the Future

For some with lung cancer, immunotherapies are sparking long-lasting responses.



Debra Wood, RN

Latest:

What to Watch For

Heart-lung complications are more likely in survivors of certain cancers—breast, lymphoma, testicular, lung—and who received certain treatments


Dr. Daniel McFarland

Latest:

Tumor Mutation Burden May Be Predictive of Depression in Patients With Lung Cancer

Tumor mutation burden may be an independent predictor of developing depression in patients with lung cancer, according to Dr. Daniel McFarland.



Maurie Markman

Latest:

Pioneering Oncologist Provides an Overview of Advances in Cancer

Dr. Maurie Markman sits down with Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, one of the most influential researchers and physicians in the cancer care arena.


Jason M Broderick

Latest:

Padcev Plus Keytruda Reduces Risk of Death, Disease Progression in Advanced Bladder Cancer

For the first time, a drug combination (Padcev plus Keytruda) outperformed frontline chemotherapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.


Nancy Bell

Latest:

Caring for a Young Person With Cancer Can Be a Balancing Act

Caring for a young person with cancer can be a challenge, explains Nancy Bell.