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.

• Life After Breast Cancer

• Doc, Shouldn't We Be Getting Some Tests?

• Why Not Start with Thalidomide?

• Not Just Tired

• 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?

• 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