Sound Advice

vol 10 | issue 01
Experts offer advice on getting involved with patient advocacy, expressing feelings to loved ones, and hospice care.

Forward Look

Patients may be wary of discussing this common side effect.

by Sue Rochman

Your Cancer Guide

Patients with metastatic disease need to carefully consider risks and benefits of therapies within the context of their goals.

by Hester Hill Schnipper

Caregiving With Confidence

When families work together to provide care for a loved one, communicating can become a challenge.

by Ashley Jones

Advocacy in Action

Two mothers, each with a son who died of brain cancer, worked together to increase awareness and acceptance of tumor tissue donation.

by Esther Landhuis

Cancer patients in the U.S. are feeling impacts from the new coronavirus.

by Kate Yandell

The arrival of generic versions of the targeted therapy imatinib only modestly reduced the cost of treating chronic myelogenous leukemia patients, a study finds.

by Anna Azvolinsky

A study illuminates the alcohol consumption habits of cancer survivors.

by Jen Tota McGivney

A father with metastatic kidney cancer embraces moments with his 3-year-old son while pondering how he'll be remembered.

by Adam P. Stern

The number of cancer patients and survivors visiting emergency departments for opioid overdoses more than doubled between 2006 and 2015, but overdoses are still uncommon in this group.

by Emma Yasinski