Contributors


Connie Carson

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Refreshing Your Memory: Easing the Effects of Chemobrain Through Training

Speech pathologists can help ease “chemobrain” through cognition training, and by teaching patients to compensate for deficits in memory or skills.


Danielle Novetsky Friedman

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Danielle Friedman on a Study of Diabetes Among Childhood Cancer Survivors

CURE spoke to Friedman during the 2016 Cancer Survivorship Symposium in mid-January.


Ulrike Boehmer, PhD

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Cancer Related Clinical Care of Sexual and Fender Minorities

Sexual and gender minorities are not receiving the same standard of clinical care as other patients with cancer.


Debbie's Dream

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Debbie's Dream Foundation and Cleveland Clinic Florida to Host First Annual Collaborative International Gastric Cancer Education Symposium and Live Webcast

Patients, families, and caregivers will have the opportunity to learn about gastric cancer and cancer-related issues from international healthcare experts.


Dorinda Sparacio

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From the Routine to the Unusual: The Nurse Who Stayed With Me Through Cancer Care

An Extraordinary Healers essay honoring Carla Schaefer, BSN, RN, OCN [Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, NJ]


Greg Schilling

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My Oncology Angel

Winning Essay: CURE’s 2012 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing


Cate Douglass

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Shorter Radiation Therapy Effective and Tolerable in Early-Stage Prostate Cancer

Patients with early-stage prostate cancer may be able to shorten their radiation time, thanks to the results of a recent study conducted by the Duke Cancer Institute.


Lynn Aspey

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Cancer Survivorship and the Mysterious 'New Normal'

Most people have heard the term "new normal" for individuals living, surviving and struggling with cancer. What actually does that mean?


Abbey Brockman, RN, B.S.N., OCN Nurse Manager, Westwood Exam/Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer Center

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Oncology Nurse Inspires Patients, Health Care Team

An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring LINDSAY NORRIS, RN, B.S.N. [THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM, WESTWOOD, KANSAS]


Tammy Matuska, B.S.N., RN

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Education and Teamwork Are Key in the Treatment of MPNs

At the 2019 MPN Heroes® event Tammy Matuska, B.S.N., RN, known as the "lifeline to patients," was honored for her outstanding work for patients with MPN.


Founder, Will2Love

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Nowhere to Turn: Cancer-Related Problems with Sexual Health or Fertility

On Feb. 21, we'll be co-hosting a tweet chat with Oncology Nursing News and Will2Love's Leslie R. Schover about sexual health and fertility after a cancer diagnosis. Join us at 9 p.m. EST with the hashtag #CureConnect


Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma

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MM4MM 2017 Kilimanjaro Team Training Climb

This year, a group of patients, advocates and health care professionals will tackle Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money and awareness for multiple myeloma.


Kevin Klasila

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More Than Just a Moustache

For the past four years, a coworker and I took on the responsibility as organizers and ambassadors for the annual Movember “Best Moustache” competition and fundraising event in our office. In November 2016, the cause took on a whole new meaning.



Myrna Chandler Goldstein

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My Decision to Have a Double Mastectomy Without Reconstruction

While the surgeon suggested I have a lumpectomy followed by radiation treatments, I had already made my decision. I requested a double mastectomy without any type of reconstruction. Why would I pursue such a radical alternative? In this post, I explain my choice.


Dr. Julie Rani Nangia

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Chemotherapy Type and Sequence Can Impact Hair Retention in Breast Cancer

Dr. Julia Rani Nangia explains how certain chemotherapy types and sequencing have different impacts on hair retention for patients with breast cancer.




Kelly Johnson

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Survivors of Young-Adult Hodgkin Lymphoma Not Getting All Recommended Checkups

Only 30 percent of survivors at high risk for cardiac damage adhered to long-term recommendations including an echocardiogram, electrocardiogram or multigated acquisition scan.


Timothy Burns

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Out of Several Recent Drug Approvals in NSCLC, Tabrecta Most 'Practice Changing' of All, According to Expert

“One FDA approval that we were quite excited about (is Tabrecta). And I've actually already put some patients on it; it's a very good drug,” Dr. Timothy Burns said in a recent interview.



CEO, ZERO --The End of Prostate Cancer

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Top 10 Things Learned in 20 Years of Fighting Prostate Cancer

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.


Mike Hennessy

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Passion and Persistence in the Face of Metastatic Breast Cancer

The metastatic breast cancer community is a unique, strong-willed group of people who were honored in our inaugural Metastatic Breast Cancer HeroesTM program.


Ilene Tramantano

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Our Mother Would Have Been So Proud

I've always heard of breast cancer survivors, but I never imagined I would become one.



Chuck Wakefield

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Chuck Wakefield Discusses Training for the Kilimanjaro Climb

Charles (Chuck) Wakefield, a multiple myeloma survivor and climber of the Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma Mount Kilimanjaro climb, discusses the importance of staying active and how he trained for the climb.


Daniel W. Lee, MD

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On the Frontlines, Advocating for Every Child With Cancer

An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring Cindy Delbrook, RN [Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland].


Doris Cardwell

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Strangers, Manners and a Personal Side of Breast Cancer

I am still struggling to navigate the intrusive questions of well-meaning strangers 17 years after surviving inflammatory breast cancer.


Susan Leclair, Ph.D., CLS (NCA)

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Connecting the Science to the Patient

Susan Leclair, Ph.D., CLS (NCA), retired lab professor at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, discusses how moderating an online forum for patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) has inspired her.


Kathy Giusti, M.B.A.

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Advocacy Group Demonstrates that Educating Patients Improves Their Treatment Decisions

Why do some patients succumb to their cancer in a matter of months, while others with the same disease live for years or even decades?