Free from cancer: Achieving quality of life for all cancer patients and survivors
With Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan under development, the Survivorship and Quality of Life Network of…
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Cancer survivors urgently need better nutritional support
New research from the University of Sheffield, UK, has revealed an urgent need to improve…
Researchers describe new condition involving numerous GI polyps in cancer survivors
In a paper published online today, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers provide new details about a…
New study shows how cancer survivors develop opioid addictions
Opioids play an important role in how cancer patients manage pain, but the ongoing opioid…
Cancer survival rates in the young show inconsistent progress
A new study in JNCI Cancer Spectrum finds that dramatic increases in cancer survival in adolescents and…
Cancer survivors see mostly positives in how they have changed
Two years after diagnosis, breast cancer survivors have four times more positive than negative thoughts…
People diagnosed with cancer often don’t embrace the term ‘survivor’
Leonard L. Berry, Texas A&M University ; Andrea Flynn, University of San Diego, and Scott…
Survey data from Lung Cancer Alliance highlights the unmet emotional needs of long-term lung cancer survivors
A recent survey found lung cancer survivors indicate that emotional effects, unlike physical impacts, are…
Late effects of treatment hinder independence of adult survivors of childhood brain tumours
In the first study of its kind, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have found…
Many survivors of childhood cancer are unconcerned about their future health
In the largest study to date that examined concerns of adult survivors of childhood cancer,…