When a Guatemalan family faced cancer, they turned to the country where they had dual citizenship — and to each other — for help.
Gardening helps cancer survivors truly thrive.
What is the appropriate reaction when a friend is diagnosed with cancer? Should you be sympathetic, optimistic, questioning? How do you handle your own fears—those you feel for your friend and, particularly as you grow older, those that evoke the possibility of personal loss and even the reality of your own vulnerability?
Lorén Barbosa, co-chairperson of More Than Friends, discussed the Latino/Caribbean/American organization's Annual Tea Party and the their goal of sending a message of overall health and wellness.
Lee Schwartzberg, executive director of the University of Tennessee West Cancer Center, discusses concerns that patients newly diagnosed with cancer have about chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV).
“I’m not going to give up on that just because of this pandemic. Health is most important, as it should be for us cancer survivors.”
“Sometimes ‘a new normal’ seems to have a bad connotation,” said Nicole Lise Feingold, director of Patient Services at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN).
An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring JESSICA BRANDT, B.S.N., RN, OCN [MELANOMA CLINIC, DEPARTMENT OF ONCOLOGY, MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA]
After publishing them in October 2016,the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is already seeking to update and expand their guidelines for diagnosing and treating patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).
An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring MARCUS GASAWAY, B.S., RN, OCN [TEXAS ONCOLOGY-AUSTIN MIDTOWN, AUSTIN, TEXAS]
An essay honoring Betty McEver, RN, OCN [Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, New York]
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Lynne Joy Malestic, RN, Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center, Rancho Mirage, California, 2016 Extraordinary Healer Award Winner, tells a story of a couple she cared for.
Essay from brain cancer survivor and young adult cancer advocate, Emily Morrison.
What has been your experience with returning to work during and after cancer treatment? What would make the transition easier? Do you have advice to share with patients and survivors?
An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring JENNI CHANG, B.S.N., RN, OCN [VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA]
We plan our days and weeks and our whole lives in our minds. March 9, 2011, was one of those days for me; just a typical day in the life of Kayleigh Coupe.
Richard Boulay, M.D., chief of the division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Lehigh Valley Health Netowrk, tells the story of removing a 140-pound tumor from Mary Clancy. The tumor had been growing for at least 10 years when it was caught by a CAT scan, and was about half her body weight.