Survivorship Issues
Some patients with cancer have physical and emotional symptoms that may not necessarily be related to advanced cancer or end-of-life care. This section includes pieces devoted to such issues as maintaining quality of life after cancer treatment, returning to a normal routine while facing fatigue, and following the recommended schedule for post-treatment screenings and tests.
Doc, Shouldn't We Be Getting Some Tests? [2]
Why Not Start with Thalidomide? [3]
Not Just Tired [4]
Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Women with Young Children: Our Patients as Parents [5]
Parents with Cancer: Who's Looking After the Children [6]
Communicating the Value of Adjuvant Chemotherapy [7]
Real-time Rationing of Scarce Resources: The NPTC Experience [8]
Childhood Cancer Survivors in the Dark [9]
The Use of Metaphor in the Discourse of Cancer [10]
Treatment at Random: The Ultimate Science or the Betrayal of Hippocrates? [11]
Revisiting 'First, You Cry,' 25 Years Later [12]
Tobacco Dependence: Why Should an Oncologist Care? [13]
From Access to Evidence: An Advocate's Journey [14]
Caring (Really) for Patients Who Use Alternative Therapies for Cancer [15]
Run for Your Life: The Reaction of (Some) Professionals to a Person with Cancer [16]