Sound Advice

vol 09 | issue 04
Experts offer advice on parenting a child who has had cancer, what to look for in a primary care provider, and peripheral neuropathy.

Q&A

Drawing on her own experiences as a teenager who learned her mother had pancreatic cancer, Marisa Bardach Ramel urges adolescents in similar situations to embrace all emotions—even the ugly ones.

by Marci A. Landsmann

Patients find each other online and get support they say is unparalleled, but with openness comes concern about privacy.

by Kate Yandell

Healthy Habits

Inexpensive fitness trackers offer an easy way to monitor physical activity.

by Carisa D. Brewster

Healthy Habits

Eating well during cancer treatment doesn't require a lot of work.

by Ashley P. Taylor

Compared with intravenous paclitaxel, the oral form of the chemotherapy drug was associated with improved tumor shrinkage in metastatic breast cancer patients.

by Ashley P. Taylor

A study adds to evidence that many patients with ductal carcinoma in situ do not need to have their lymph nodes removed.

by Cheryl Platzman Weinstock

Nutritional epidemiologist Carrie Daniel-MacDougall discusses research suggesting that what patients eat affects their gut microbes—and could influence cancer immunotherapy response.

by Anna Azvolinsky

In a study of women with breast cancer in North Carolina, those who lived in rural areas or were black were more likely than urban white women to report negative changes in their employment.

by Pamela Rafalow Grossman

The financial burden of a cancer diagnosis can lower a patient's credit score.

by Shelly Rosenfeld