Working Together to Choose a Cancer Treatment Plan: A Caregiver’s Perspective
Sharie Lisowski shares how she and her husband reacted to his prostate cancer diagnosis and how they worked together to help him choose the best treatment plan for him.
Sharie Lisowski shares how she and her husband reacted to his prostate cancer diagnosis and how they worked together to help him choose the best treatment plan for him.
In this post, several experts describe what Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received mantle radiation should know about their increased breast cancer risk, including what to know about screening and monitoring for signs of breast cancer.
Dr. H. Jack West shares what people with lung cancer should know about biomarker testing, including why it is important in planning treatment and what to expect during the testing process.
The ASCO Annual Meeting is being held June 3 to 7, and here is some of notable research that will be presented today. Today’s research includes a study evaluating whether radiation therapy can be avoided after surgery for people aged 55 or older with low-grade luminal A breast cancer, as identified through biomarker testing.
In this podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt and Dr. Scott Tagawa discuss clinical practice guidelines, including what they are, how they’re developed, and how they can impact care for people with cancer.
Oncologists take many factors into consideration when making treatment plan recommendations for people with cancer. Here, learn what key factors and tools are used when making treatment plan decisions.
Breast cancer survivor Tracy Tyner shares why she chose a mastectomy with a flat closure following her breast cancer diagnosis and how doing her own research and collaborating with her surgeon helped lead to a successful outcome.
In this podcast, Dr. Tian Zhang and Dr. Afreen Shariff discuss the side effects of a type of immunotherapy called an immune checkpoint inhibitor and how people receiving this type of treatment can best monitor themselves for side effects.
Survivor Cindy Trice shares how changing the clothes she wore during cancer treatment made her feel more comfortable and dignified and how she’s working to help other people with cancer do the same.
Read research highlights from the 2021 Quality Care Symposium, including a study on improving care for underserved people with cancer and a study investigating what causes delays in patients receiving their cancer medications.