Coping with Cancer
A wide variety of professionals share their knowledge and experience in easy-to-read, relevant articles, and patients, caregivers, and survivors share their strategies for coping with cancer.
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Is Pregnancy Safe after Cancer?
For many cancer survivors – both men and women alike – starting, expanding, or completing one’s family after cancer is a significant desire. But for...
Is Breast Cancer in Your Genes?
About 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Although, most of the time, the cause...
Diagnosis: Multiple Myeloma
Plasma cell neoplasms are diseases in which the body makes too many plasma cells. Multiple myeloma is a type of plasma cell neoplasm. In multiple myeloma,...
Polycythemia Vera Explained
Polycythemia vera, or PV, is one of a group of progressive blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs. This group also includes essential thrombocythemia and...
Metastatic Breast Cancer
Today, more and more women and men with metastatic breast cancer are living longer, meaningful, and productive lives. While the search for a cure continues,...
On Becoming a Gastrointestinal Cancer Survivor
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are those that arise from the esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, bile ducts, anus, and small and large intestines. These cancers are often...
What Happens When You Have a Mental Health Disorder and Are Diagnosed with Cancer
Millions of people in the U.S. live with mental health disorders. These include depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and panic disorders, substance addiction, and eating disorders,...
Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma and its treatment often cause side effects. In addition to providing treatment to slow, stop, or eliminate the cancer, an important part of...
What Is Primary Myelofibrosis?
Primary myelofibrosis, or MF, is a chronic blood cancer in which excessive scar tissue forms in the bone marrow and impairs its ability to produce...
Dual Diagnosis: Diabetes + Cancer
More than 29 million people in the United States are living with diabetes. Of those, 8 million don’t know they have it. An even greater...
Multiple Myeloma
Your oncologist, nurses, and other members of your healthcare team work together to treat your multiple myeloma. Since medical appointments are...
Cancer and Fertility in Men
The American Cancer Society estimates that by January 2024 there will be more than 9.3 million men living with cancer in...
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