Throughout her life and especially in her fight against lung cancer, Mom set us an example in unconditional devotion, taught our family valuable life lessons and never lost her indomitable spirit.
Hope is a potent ally for the patient with cancer, and it is a response that helps inform a patient's journey with cancer.
Here's how one expert decides on the next steps in treatment when a man with prostate cancer has a rising PSA and no visible metastases.
Finalist essay from the 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award contest.
“Everything is perspective. It's how you look at it.”
Many advances have been made in the fight against prostate cancer in the past two decades, but ZERO will not stop until the disease is completely ended.
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic patients with cancer who are considered to have weakened immune systems need to have a special emphasis placed on their care.
Oncologists are increasingly focusing on treatment-related infertility.
While emerging therapies for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) continue to shape the treatment landscape, no key standard currently exists, says one expert – particularly for older patients, who benefit most from a treatment approach that has been tailored to fit them and their disease.
Involving children in cancer caregiving may lessen fears and help with understanding.
When first diagnosed with lung cancer, some doctors told Bonnie J. Addario that there was nothing that they could do for her. Now, 14 years later, she has spent over a decade helping others with the disease through her Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation.
An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring CINDY L. TEEPLE, APRN, M.S.N., AOCN [ABRAHAM MITTELMAN, M.D., PRIVATE PRACTICE, PURCHASE, NEW YORK]
I am awed when I consider that billions of electrical impulses traversing networks of computers worldwide have created a haven for people who share a terrifying disease.
A patient with breast cancer discovers that going pink isn’t all that bad.
An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring Carmi Fazio, RN, BSN, ONA [Molina Healthcare IN Niles, Illinois]
Advocacy groups are making a difference in the lung cancer community. What can they do for you?
An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring KATHY IVY, B.S.N., RN, OCN [CHILDRESS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, CHILDRESS, TEXAS]
For some patients, faith plays an important part in how they cope with treatment and recovery, but whether it extends to the exam room depends on many factors.
One of three finalist essays for the 2008 CURE Extraordinary Healer Award Contest.
Having a collection of prayers before, during and after a mammogram has helped ease my mind tremendously after having breast cancer.
When we get cancer all the attention is focused on us, but the demands of caregiving can leave behind family and loved ones that need attention as well. Especially our children.
Patients can pick from a growing array of treatments, from same-day- results surgery to game-changing immunotherapy, to fight the most common type of cancer.
The phase 3 ARIEL4 trial evaluated Rubraca (rucaparib) versus chemotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer and a BRCA mutation who did not respond to two or more lines of chemotherapy.