Caregiving

My daughter faced the difficult decision of balancing the potential benefits and risks of cancer treatment, including the long-term heart complications associated with Herceptin.

While being a caregiver to my youngest daughter with brain cancer, I felt emotional turmoil while being away from my firstborn daughter.

As a caregiver to my daughter who had breast cancer, pink takes on a new meaning for us — one I’m not quite a fan of.

After being my daughter’s caregiver during breast cancer, I now have a different relationship with my body, especially when I feel something different.

Even though my wife became quadriplegic after her breast cancer progressed, our insurance still did not help us out, so I became her caregiver full-time.

My wife faced ovarian cancer, breast cancer and multifocal motor neuropathy, and I was her only caregiver.

On the harder days with my husband’s cancer, we would try to remember happy memories to help improve our moods.

Caregivers are tailor-made to help patients and survivors through their cancer experiences.

As a society, we shouldn't accept the "norm" of people younger than 50 receiving diagnoses or dying from cancer.

Good news in the cancer space is great, but we need to share more cancer stories about the good, bad and the ugly

Through so many cancer scares, I'm trying to live in gratitude that my sister's time is not now.

When experiencing loss, always look forward and have hope.

When I was my husband's caregiver, I tried to make things comfortable, but I'm not sure if the drugs and bedpans could ever make it right.

Experts from City of Hope explain the importance of symptom management and care planning during cancer.

One expert explains how caregivers are a vital part of the care team during a clinical trial.

Accepting the unknown and understanding why random things happen helps me be hopeful as my daughter reached five years of cancer survivorship.

A digital tool for caregivers of patients with cancer in hospice care significantly reduced some of the caregiver burden while improving their mood.

CURE® editors discuss last week’s biggest cancer headlines, from Dexter Scott King’s death to the potential of laughter therapy to boost quality of life.

This study assessed the impact of laughter therapy in both patients with cancer and caregivers, and both groups showed decreases in mood disturbances, in addition to decreases in pain for patients and in burnout for caregivers.

When caring for his wife with myelofibrosis, Ed Bartholemy focused on making her life as fun and positive as possible, despite her limitations.

One expert explained how nurses have “opportunities to get to talk with patients and their loved ones in ways that you don't (get) when you're in the time crunch of an appointment with your oncologist,” and how that can impact end-of-life care.

Those caring for loved ones with cancer are “at risk for becoming overwhelmed or becoming so burdened to the point of exhaustion or being sick themselves,” one expert says.

One expert explains how patients’ wishes for their end-of-life care can change with time, making those conversations with caregivers “not a one-time, sit-down discussion.”

A new study aims to answer questions regarding end-of-life care for patients with stage 4 cancers and their caregivers.

Cancer caregivers go through trauma that is often unseen and unrecognized, though some organizations are trying to change that.

When both a patient and their loved one acting as their caregiver are facing cancer, “there has to be proper care for both,” one expert tells CURE®.

Most oncology clinics screen for psychosocial distress among patients with cancer, but the same can’t be said for their caregivers, recent research found.

Caregivers of patients with head and neck cancer tend to face severe stress and burden related to their jobs, and it’s essential to implement more work-life balance.

Caregiver burden was prevalent among caregivers of patients with head and neck cancer, due to lack of patient employment and poor health-related quality of life.