Cancer Treatment

Lifesaving Cancer Treatment Is Often Not Used
Cancer Treatment

Lifesaving Cancer Treatment Is Often Not Used

Maurie ­Markman, MD | January 6, 2016

Three major US studies have concluded that a treatment known as intraperitoneal (IP) therapy often extends the lives of women…

Cancer Immunotherapy: A Radical New Cancer Treatment That’s Saving Lives
Cancer Treatment

Cancer Immunotherapy: A Radical New Cancer Treatment That’s Saving Lives

Louis Weiner, MD | October 28, 2015

It seems like every week there’s a promising new cancer treatment—that never happens. Too often we read about a new…

Best of Integrative Cancer Care
Cancer Treatment

Best of Integrative Cancer Care

Dwight McKee, MD | July 15, 2015

Improve your outcome with the latest approaches… Cancer is a complex disease—elusive and difficult to control, let alone cure. To…

How to Get into a Cancer Clinical Trial…and Why You’d Want to
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How to Get into a Cancer Clinical Trial…and Why You’d Want to

Toni Kay Mangskau | June 24, 2015

About 20% of newly diagnosed adult cancer patients in the US are eligible for clinical trials, studies for which people…

Cancer Treatment Options…Don’t Try to Make All Those Decisions On Your Own
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Cancer Treatment Options…Don’t Try to Make All Those Decisions On Your Own

Mitch Golant, PhD, FAPOS | March 18, 2015

This program gives you the help you need… “You have cancer” are three of the most frightening words a person…

Picking a Medical Team for Treating Cancer
Cancer Treatment

Picking a Medical Team for Treating Cancer

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

Bottom Line/Health: All right, so let's talk about your treatment a little bit. How did you pick your medical team?…

How to Ask for Help When You Have Cancer
Cancer Treatment

How to Ask for Help When You Have Cancer

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

Bottom Line/HEALTH: One of the hardest things is for people to ask for help—and it’s one of the most overwhelming…

How to Overcome “Chemo-Brain”
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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
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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…

Feel Your Best After Cancer
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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…

Ginger Eases Nausea for Cancer Patients
Cancer Treatment

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,…

Hyperthermia Therapy Makes Cancer Treatments Work Better
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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…

Complementary Cancer Therapies: A Guide for Patients and Survivors
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Complementary Cancer Therapies: A Guide for Patients and Survivors

April 30, 2014

If you are a cancer patient or survivor, you want to do all you can to increase your odds of…

After Cancer: You Really Can Get Back to Normal
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After Cancer: You Really Can Get Back to Normal

Julie Silver, MD | April 30, 2014

Until relatively recently, there was no such thing as “cancer rehab” to help cancer patients cope with the grueling and…

Cancer Patients Beware — Stress Can Deactivate Your Treatment
Cancer Treatment

Cancer Patients Beware — Stress Can Deactivate Your Treatment

Govindasamy Ilangovan, PhD | April 29, 2014

Doctors used to encourage cancer patients to conduct their lives in whatever way they choose while undergoing treatment -- those…