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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?
Why Not Start with Thalidomide?
Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Women with Young Children: Our Patients as Parents
Parents with Cancer: Who's Looking After the Children
Communicating the Value of Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Real-time Rationing of Scarce Resources: The NPTC Experience
Childhood Cancer Survivors in the Dark
The Use of Metaphor in the Discourse of Cancer
Treatment at Random: The Ultimate Science or the Betrayal of Hippocrates?
Revisiting 'First, You Cry,' 25 Years Later
Tobacco Dependence: Why Should an Oncologist Care?
From Access to Evidence: An Advocate's Journey
Caring (Really) for Patients Who Use Alternative Therapies for Cancer
Run for Your Life: The Reaction of (Some) Professionals to a Person with Cancer