Psychosocial

Reflecting on different reminders that have helped me maintain an empowering mindset and stay motivated on healing with cancer, one day at a time.

Helping others through their cancer experience helped with my own feelings of survivor's guilt.

It’s easy to fall into depression and anxiety during long hospitalizations for cancer, but creativity helped pull me out of those negative feelings.

“Everything happens for a reason,” is among some of the unhelpful things you can say to someone with cancer.

Sometimes, laughter really is the best medicine, so I tried to maintain a sense of humor through my cancer treatments.

Being in nature calms me, and I realized that research backs up what I’ve been experiencing.

In the 2024 CURE Summer issue, we focused on a facet of cancer: the question of faith.

LGBTQI+ patients with cancer are encouraged to seek positive relationships with care teams despite possible histories of minority stress.

When I looked back on calendars and journals from my time with cancer, I was surprised to see that it was incredibly mundane.

Meditation helped me quiet my mind and adopt a positive mindset after being diagnosed with cancer.

A Lynch syndrome diagnosis shook my world. Here is what I wish I was told from the get-go.

After a cancer diagnosis, toxic positivity can be unhelpful, though forced joy may bring light to a difficult situation, a survivor and advocate said.

I’ve experienced mixed emotions during my periods of remission for my myelodysplastic syndrome.

After being diagnosed with cancer, I learned that everyone handles grief differently.

As up to 42% of patients with cancer may be using cannabis, one expert spoke to CURE® to separate cannabis myths from reality.

Many cancer survivors experience fear of recurrence, even years into survivorship, so here are ways to help manage and face this fear.

While I have a good prognosis, I still sometimes find myself in cancer’s quicksand of the past, pulling me out of current moments of joy.

Undergoing cancer treatment is like pulling weeds — we hope we got the last of it and it does not return, but we can never be sure.

Musical play engages children with cancer, which relieves stress for them and their parents/caregivers, an expert said.

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE® spoke with Lillian Dugan of the Dear Jack Foundation about the needs of caregivers for adolescent and young adult patients with cancer.

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE® spoke with Lillian Dugan of the Dear Jack Foundation about the issues faced by adolescent and young adult patients with cancer as they age into adult care.

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE® spoke with Lillian Dugan of the Dear Jack Foundation about how a cancer diagnosis ‘adds a new identity’ for adolescent and young adult patients.

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE® spoke with Lillian Dugan of the Dear Jack Foundation about the power of mindfulness practices such as yoga and meditation.

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE® spoke with Lillian Dugan of the Dear Jack Foundation about the current landscape of research for adolescent and young adult patients with cancer.

The waiting in between scans heightens my scanxiety, even though I've had no evidence of disease for 2 1/2 years.

The director of programs for the Dear Jack Foundation explains issues young patients with cancer may face into adulthood.

Last week we saw some FDA approvals come through, as well as research that explored the psychosocial outcomes of individuals who survived pediatric rhabdosarcoma.

The time after a cancer diagnosis can be stressful, as the care team needs to balance unnecessary treatment delays with getting the therapeutic plan right.

Survivors of rhabdomyosarcoma may be at higher risk for poorer psychological outcomes, that radiation therapy and smoking may worsen.

Mental health after cancer treatment has not been talked about enough, experts say, so how should survivors effectively care for their minds?