Cancer

Talking to Your Spouse About Cancer
Cancer

Talking to Your Spouse About Cancer

Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW | September 17, 2014

Bottom Line/HEALTH: Now, you've gotten diagnosed, and that's emotionally devastating, frightening, overwhelming. I can't even imagine all that you were…

How to Overcome “Chemo-Brain”

How to Overcome “Chemo-Brain”

Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW | September 16, 2014

Bottom Line/HEALTH: How did you handle chemo-brain? Hollye Jacobs, R.N.: Chemo-brain is so frustrating—everybody I talk to is disillusioned by…

Managing the Nausea of Chemotherapy

Managing the Nausea of Chemotherapy

Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW | September 16, 2014

Bottom Line/HEALTH: What was your secret—so you said you got a lot of nausea—what was your secret to managing nausea…

Friendly Way To Identify Skin Cancer
Skin Cancer

Friendly Way To Identify Skin Cancer

June Robinson, MD | August 27, 2014

I’m not a worrier—usually—but I think it makes sense to be concerned about skin cancer. Like a lot of people,…

Is Valerian Really a Danger to Cancer Patients?
Cancer

Is Valerian Really a Danger to Cancer Patients?

Karin Kraft, PhD | August 26, 2014

Imagine facing a cancer diagnosis along with its exhausting and debilitating treatment...add the responsibilities of your normal life of work…

Processing Breast Cancer Insurance Claims
Breast Cancer

Processing Breast Cancer Insurance Claims

Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW | July 25, 2014

Bottom Line/HEALTH: What lessons did you learn about insurance coverage and breast cancer? Hollye Jacobs: This is something I actually…

Earwax, Body Odor and Cancer — Is There a Connection?
Breast Cancer

Earwax, Body Odor and Cancer — Is There a Connection?

Toshihisa Ishikawa, PhD | July 22, 2014

Gene Variant Links Three Disparate Conditions In the department of strange but true... a recent Japanese study concerning breast cancer…

Feel Your Best After Cancer

Feel Your Best After Cancer

Sheetal Kircher, MD | July 21, 2014

How to get the care you need... You beat cancer. Now what? For the 14 million cancer survivors in the…

Do You Really Need a Mammogram?
Breast Cancer

Do You Really Need a Mammogram?

Russell Harris, MD, MPH | July 15, 2014

Women, you’ve been trained to be on the ball about keeping up with mammograms for breast cancer detection—and, while there’s…

Ginger Eases Nausea for Cancer Patients

Ginger Eases Nausea for Cancer Patients

Julie L. Ryan, PhD, MPH | July 1, 2014

As if it weren’t tough enough to face cancer, many patients who receive chemotherapy experience severe nausea and vomiting afterward,…

5 Supplements That Help Prevent Cancer Recurrence

5 Supplements That Help Prevent Cancer Recurrence

Lise N. Alschuler, ND | June 30, 2014

It’s a top question on the minds of many cancer survivors: What will help keep the cancer from coming back?…

Hyperthermia Therapy Makes Cancer Treatments Work Better

Hyperthermia Therapy Makes Cancer Treatments Work Better

Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD | June 17, 2014

Would you believe me if I told you that a treatment for cancer used in ancient Egypt is proving to…

Hidden Melanoma
Skin Cancer

Hidden Melanoma

Marianne Berwick, PhD | June 16, 2014

It can strike where you least expect it If you spotted a mole on your leg that had changed color…

Reduce Cancer Risk by 40% with Vitamin E

Reduce Cancer Risk by 40% with Vitamin E

Xiao-Ou Shu, MD, PhD | May 27, 2014

Liver cancer, as you probably know, is one of the deadliest kinds of cancer. In fact, the survival rate five…

Little-Known Risk Factors for Cancer: Fruit Juice, Alarm Clocks, Heavy Traffic and More

Little-Known Risk Factors for Cancer: Fruit Juice, Alarm Clocks, Heavy Traffic and More

Keith I. Block, MD | May 27, 2014

What if you were told that your bedside alarm clock—or even your morning glass of orange juice—could possibly increase your…