ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Insomnia Common Among Cancer Patients

By Lisa Rapaport — 2019

Roughly half of patients with cancer have symptoms of insomnia, and many may have sleep problems that linger for at least a year, a small study suggests. The most common malignancies were breast cancer, tumors of the prostate or testicles, and colorectal cancer.

Read on www.reuters.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Complementary Therapies for Pain

Complementary therapies can be used to help with pain. These methods draw your attention away from the pain and release muscle tension caused by pain.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Types of Complementary Therapies

When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Pain Management & Cancer Care

There are many different methods to control cancer pain.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Are Certain Cancers More Painful than Others?

While all cancers can cause pain, some, such as those affecting the bones or pancreas, are more frequently associated with pain. Regardless of the type of cancer, it’s important to remember that cancer pain can often be treated.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Facts About Cancer Pain

Having cancer does not always mean having pain. But if you do have pain, you can work with your health care team to make sure a pain relief plan is part of your care. There are many different kinds of medicines, different ways to take the medicines, and non-drug methods that can help relieve it.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Steve Jobs’ Cancer Treatment Regrets

Jobs’ “magical thinking” may have defined his business brilliance, but it could have been his downfall in his fight against cancer.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Cancer Patients Don’t Have Enough Information to Make Decisions About Their Treatments

In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung cancer. Yet in all that time, doctors never told him or his husband whether the cancer was curable — or likely to take Mead-e’s life.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

I Thought Being a Health Care Reporter Would Make Cancer Easier. I Was Wrong.

Nothing can prepare you for the immense number of complicated, sometimes life-or-death decisions the disease forces you to make about your own treatment.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

A Food Lover Faces an Unimaginable Choice: Give Up Her Stomach or Risk a Fatal Cancer

I had just learned I carry a genetic mutation that puts me at an incredibly high risk for a rare stomach cancer.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Young People Facing End-of-Life Care Decisions

It is extremely difficult for anyone, especially young people in their 20s and 30s, to be told that their treatment(s) haven’t worked. If the cancer you have continues to progress despite treatment, it may be called end-stage cancer.

FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Cancer