Psychosocial

Art therapy provides a creative outlet for many breast cancer patients and helps them cope with stress.

On taking a mental health break from cancer in order to rekindle a sense of hope.

There are some days that, for no reason at all, I struggle to cope with being a cancer survivor. So does that mean I am a failure at survivorship?

After any kind of health trauma, even the good news comes with an air of skepticism, caution and even fear. That said, there's a reason to celebrate any day we get to live and argue in favor of faith and hope, not fear.

Sometimes it seems like being heroic after you get sick is expected of you. To me, putting goodness into the world, in sickness or in health, is what makes heroes.

There is no right way to deal with the various crises life throws our way, so we try to make sense of them and love through it and live, despite the inevitability of our existence.

While most survivors of childhood cancers are well adjusted, a recent study revealed that more testing is needed for psychosocial late effects in certain groups.

After cancer, calm and anxiety go from two separate states of mind to form a new way of thinking and perhaps even fighting the fears that come with being a cancer survivor.

Physician Uri Goldberg discusses an observational cross-sectional study that catalogued depression among patients with cancer by stage and source of malignancy.

Hand massage was proven to not only reduce patient anxiety while undergoing chemotherapy, but also to strengthen nurse-patient relationships.

Physical changes after breast cancer can affect the sexual relationship between a man and woman.