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May 21, 2018
Greg Guthrie, ASCO staff

Geriatric Assessment and Cancer Care: Expert Insights

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ASCO has released guidelines about cancer care for older adults, and one of the main recommendations is for patients receiving chemotherapy to have a geriatric assessment. In this Cancer.Net podcast, 2 experts that helped create these guidelines discuss what a geriatric assessment is and what it means for older adults with cancer.
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Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO; 2015-2021 Cancer.Net Editor in Chief
April 24, 2018
Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO

Coping With Stress When You Have Cancer

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Dealing with stress can make coping with a cancer diagnosis even harder. In this month’s From the Editor’s Desk, Dr. Schapira describes some ways to lessen the effects of stress.

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April 17, 2018
Sue Chang, MD, FCAP

Cancer Stage: 5 Important Reasons to Know Yours

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Cancer staging describes the extent of a cancer’s growth or spread. Read about the new staging information recently released for many cancer types and why knowing your stage matters.

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Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO; 2015-2021 Cancer.Net Editor in Chief
March 22, 2018
Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO

Cancer Stories: How We Make Sense of Cancer

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In this month’s From the Editor’s Desk, Dr. Schapira writes about the power of storytelling in cancer care and how this led to the development of a podcast series with the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO; 2015-2021 Cancer.Net Editor in Chief
February 22, 2018
Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO

How Can We Do Better at Preventing Cancer?

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In this month’s From the Editor’s Desk, Dr. Schapira writes about prevention and what we can do to help understand and manage our personal cancer risk.

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