Category: Cancer
Cancer Survivorship Support and Options
Survivorship services provide deeper support for patients during and after cancer treatment.
Why Are Uterine Cancer Cases Rising?
An increasing number of women are being diagnosed with cancer, but early detection saves lives. Learn about the symptoms of uterine cancer.
Do I Need to Be Screened for Colorectal Cancer?
Don’t sit on this cancer screening. Colorectal cancer is one of the few diseases that can be detected and treated before symptoms appear. But you must be screened in order to catch it.
How to Eat a Plant-Based Diet
Plant-based diets are heart-healthy diets, and they’re easier to follow than you might think.
How Exercise Helps Breast Cancer Prevention and Recovery
Exercise helps the body prevent diseases, heal faster, and boost energy and mood. For people at risk for breast cancer, regular exercise and a healthy diet helps with prevention, post-surgery survival and reducing side effects during and after treatment.
Lung Cancer Symptoms Are Not Always Obvious
Recognizing lung cancer symptoms allows for prompt initiation of treatment. Getting screened can catch it before there are symptoms when treatments are most effective.
Coping with Cancer Recurrence
Receiving another cancer diagnosis can be a shock, but you can get through it. Learn why cancer sometimes comes back, what treatment options are available and, most importantly, how to cope.
Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
Breast cancer can run in families. It’s important that you know your family history, as well as the genetic, medical or behavioral factors that increase your risk of developing breast cancer. Genetic testing for breast cancer can give you important information that you can use to be proactive with monitoring, screening and lifestyle changes that may reduce your risk.
Pancreatic Cancer and New-Onset Diabetes
An important link between pancreatic cancer and new-onset diabetes can help health care providers detect cancer early when it’s easiest to treat.
Coming Back from Chemo Brain
Think about this scenario: Your cancer is gone or in remission, but there are new problems. You find yourself asking the same question over and over, have trouble concentrating at work or need more sticky note reminders. You may have developed “chemo brain.” But what is it and how to you cope?