Psychosocial

As the novel coronavirus outbreak begins impacting many facets of cancer care in the United States, it’s easy to have possibly missed some of the news surrounding COVID-19 and cancer. Here are four things that our readers may have missed.

Here are the top 5 stories from CURE® for March 2020.

The development of an inpatient symptom monitoring intervention, according to researchers, may enhance awareness of patient symptom burden and improve symptom control and health care usage.

30 years after cancer treatment, one survivor returns to the Ronald McDonald House that made a major difference in their cancer journey.

While patients with cancer and survivors face extra risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are more adept at handling the uncertainty and fear than one may think.

Dr. Shelley Johns, a researcher with the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and Regenstrief Institute, offers advice on how survivors and patients with cancer can recognize and manage the stress they may be experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Family is vital during the cancer journey, but family is not just made of legal and blood relatives, but the friends we make along the way as well.

Daily, we are learning more about ways to stay healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the person affected by cancer, self-care can already play a vital role in healing and can now help during social distancing.

A friend's call to list all the good things people without cancer have done for those with cancer brings an unexpected rush of hope and happiness.

Health literacy is important for any patient with cancer trying to understand their diagnosis, and they need help from their care team to gain that.

Words are powerful and precious. And cancer survivors can use their stories and words of encouragement to help others as they go through their own journey with cancer.

As a cancer survivor or patient with cancer, being honest about feeling cranky some days and knowing it is being human is important to the journey.

Having lived with the possibility of early death as a two-time cancer patient, I’m used to the coronavirus threat and all that it entails.

After waiting on scan results, the whole process can be so draining that I'm left broken and depleted. Often for several days later. Making it hard to completely enjoy the relief good news should provide.

Forced isolation after cancer can be triggering, but the alternative with a compromised immune system in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is much worse.

Being able to wait is a skill many patients with cancer learn to acquire, but that doesn't make it easy. Here's how to get your own patience power.

Writing can provide a release for all the emotions bottled up inside that you can't quite say out loud, and can help when coping with the cancer journey.

Survivors of childhood cancer with post-traumatic stress symptoms reported more psychosocial late effects, a new study shows.

Hotter than a pistol, words and thoughts have the power to make us crazy. But we can determine how we move forward with them.

One survivor shares three things that helped her find a sense of control in the chaos that a cancer diagnosis can bring.

A look at a survivor's survivorship appointment.

This time around, newfound joy and passion have added a different layer to Scanxiety.

A cancer survivor discusses the ongoing emotional roller coaster ride of cancer survivorship.

On every cancer journey we need a strong support group to provide strength, acceptance and love — for one patient with cancer their spouse stepped into that role and beyond.

Hair loss, a common side effect of some chemo drugs, affects us all in different ways. Yet when hair grows back differently, it becomes a reminder of the changes that come with a diagnosis of cancer.

Words of courage from a friend who knows that "getting through" may not be the point.

It’s no surprise that patients with cancer might become depressed, but now researchers say depression could precede a diagnosis. Here’s what you should know about the link between these two conditions.

Gratitude is my ultimate coping tool for managing my cancer survivorship.

Cancer, like many things in history, can be an unexpected landmark in our lives. With it can come crushing fear. If you feel that, even years after that moment in time, you are not alone.

The story of a Bamba, a Granddaddy, a parachute man and the anticipation to get through another procedure.