Cancer is a life-altering disease that affects not only the patient but the people around them as well. Cancer has become so prevalent that many families are used to its harmful ways. Cancer affects the totality of the patient. The patient and their perception of cancer start with information...
Young adults with cancer: how their life-stage affects parents and familiesYoung adults with cancer: how their life-stage affects parents and families - European Journal of Cancerdoi:10.1016/S0959-8049(01)82024-4Grinyer, A.Thomas, C.Elsevier LtdEuropean Journal of Cancer...
Cancer is hard to understand. All I know is cancer is something that grows inside a person's...Goff, Karen Goldberg
As for how to support a friend with cancer, she says: "The most important thing is that you not calling, as a friend, can actually compound the grief and loss they are feeling. Just pick up the phone, even if you get it wrong, just have a conversation and do your best. Your frien...
Cancer affects not only the person with the disease but those around them. Being a family member is described as strenuous and, often, associated with stress, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. There is a heightened risk of distress for family of those with fast-progressing, severe oesophageal...
"Our study is the first to fully map out how surviving cancer early in life affects our health as we grow older. "We believe it's important for these long-term effects to be considered early on by families and their healthcare teams, so the benefits of a therapy can be weighed against...
These results should be carefully considered by health policy organization as they establish screening guidelines and by clinicians and genetic counselors as they deal with persons and families with familial colon cancer risk. In conclusion, although previous studies have demonstrated increased relative ...
doi:10.1097/01.COT.0000652336.85385.42Sarah DiGiulioOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Oncology Times
National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2010. Available at: http://www.nccn.org. Ac- cessed September 3, 2010. 36. Douglas FS, O'Dair LC, Robinson M, Evans DG, Lynch SA. The accuracy of diagnoses as reported in families with cancer: a retrospective study. J Med Genet 1999;36:309 –...
The study is a follow-up to earlier research, which found that adolescents and young adults living in rural versus metropolitan U.S. counties and those living farther from the hospital where they were diagnosed are more likely to be detected at a later cancer stage, when it is generally less...