survivorship

By speaking up, advocates at the meeting have shifted the direction of breast cancer research. Some are alive, improbably, as a consequence of new treatments enabled and promoted by their advocacy. ...

Perhaps the literature fails to capture the clinical value of oncology drugs. This could happen for several reasons...

Now, there’s ample data to assuage most concerns. Among 1207 women with breast cancer before age 50, those who later delivered babies experienced no more likelihood of recurrence than did those who didn’t bear more children...

“This tool brings us closer to the country doctor model,” Basch said. “I never thought that survival would be impacted.”...

I’m speaking to people of all communities, he said. With “cancer there’s no prejudice. There’s no age limit. It can happen to anybody.”...

Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the basketball legend, announced on November 7, 1991 that he had tested positive for HIV...

“If we had a drug that caused this level of survival benefit, wouldn’t we want to go out and use it?” said Dr. Patricia Ganz...

The public has every right to current information on what’s known about survival after a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, and for all forms of cancer...

Online communities can be terrific. But in person, patients hug one another, and develop trust, bonds that last, hopefully, from one year’s meeting to the next...

Today, Walter White might not be doomed by his lung cancer. The harder problem is how to pay for his care...

The number of people living with stage 4, metastatic breast cancer is unknown...

Logistic toxicity might be defined as the administrative burden of health care.  ...

It’s the kind of problem a person who’s had cancer, or a doctor who’s prescribed generally helpful treatment, may not want to think about...

Carr’s story highlights the need for improved survivorship care. As his recent autopsy disclosed, he died with an aggressive form of lung cancer and heart disease...

To deny new cancer treatments that might prolong life in a good way, possibly for cure or a remission, or even just to tame the disease, is a misguided proposition...

What this movie gets right is the loneliness of having cancer – the feeling that kicks in when you’re awake and alive in some sort of hyper-sterile place receiving therapy, where there’s no one else...

Employment and money concerns haunt many people with all kinds of cancer, nation-wide, during and after treatment...

I used to think that physicians shouldn’t talk about money with their patients. That sort of conversation has the potential to render doctors’ work like an ordinary business transaction...

The harsh reality is that people who have had cancer treatment are sometimes perceived as a burden on a working group...

The words we use matter enormously, not just in clinical outcomes, but in how people with cancer feel about the decisions they’ve made, years later...

In retrospect it’s clear that we — patients and their kids, parents, lovers, nurses, doctors, physical therapists and social workers, all of us in cancerland — wanted Armstrong to win...

Survivor seems a strange term for a patient like me, said by her oncologist to be in remission—meaning that there’s no overt evidence of persistent cancer cells in the body...

Few cancer patients take notes on chemo dose options and potential long-term side effects...

Singing “Rock and Roll,” on top of a piano...

If a drug helps, keep it going; if it hurts, stop. There are so many algorithms in medicine, and molecular tools, but maybe the bottom line is how the, one, your patient is doing...

The question is, what’s the right, PC and emotionally sound, sensitive but not sappy term to describe the situation of a person who’s living after breast cancer? Some might say, who cares if you’ve had it?...