Cancer Health Winter 2020
Cancer Health Winter 2020
In every issue, you’ll find cutting-edge health information and the hottest topics of interest to people with cancer and their loved ones.
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Turning the Tables
A prominent urologist spent decades treating patients and researching racial disparities in prostate cancer. Then he got diagnosed.
Unequal Care
Black men are less likely to be screened for prostate cancer and, when diagnosed, less likely to receive treatment.
The Pancancer Paradigm
New site-agnostic therapies highlight the importance of genetic testing.
Expanding the Net to Catch More Cancer
To take advantage of these new therapies, people must first learn whether their cancer harbors targetable mutations.
When Cancer Pain Won’t Go Away
Non-opioid treatments and complementary approaches can help, but don’t fear using opioids when they are needed.
Fulfilling a Promise
Lung cancer advocate Don Stranathan takes on the No. 1 cancer killer.
Editor’s Letter
Get Your Life Back
Finding your way to the best life you can have now is a personal journey.
Cancer News
Got Pain? Can’t Sleep? Try Acupuncture
Acupuncture has been shown to relieve cancer-related insomnia.
Moving Through Cancer
Experts say that exercise should be the standard treatment for people with cancer.
A Helping Paw
A new pet assistance and wellness program helps people with cancer keep up with the many demands of pet guardianship.
Should You Take—or Avoid—Probiotics?
Patients who take probiotics are less likely to respond immunotherapy.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
The new documentary follows the pioneering researcher who work helped created checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy.
Care & Treatment
Immunotherapy Boosts Lung Cancer Survival
Longer-term follow-up shows improved overall survival with Keytruda or Opdivo.
PARP Med Slows Prostate Cancer
First targeted therapy may prolong survival of men with advanced prostate cancer.
It’s Not Too Late to Quit
Experts call for smoking cessation after cancer diagnosis
Breast Cancer Risk Recommendations
Task force recommends BRCA screening for women at increased cancer risk
18 to 79
All adults in this age range should be screen for hepatitis C.
Voices
What Fitness Gives Me
Yolanda Brunson-Sarrabo, CPT, NASM, is the author of “Another Face of Multiple Myeloma.”
Riding With Reindeer
Amy Berman, RN, who has Stage IV breast cancer, works to improve care for older adults.
Basics
Prostate Cancer Treatment
Treatment depends on how advanced the cancer is when detected and whether it has spread elsewhere in the body.
Diary
A Breast Cancer Diary: Emily Garnett
Emily Garnett, 34, is a mom, wife and lawyer turned writer and podcast host living with metastatic breast cancer in the New York City area.
Your Team
Your Own Cancer Drug Expert
Cecilia Lau, RPh, BCOP, APh, is a board-certified oncology pharmacist at City of Hope.
Resources
Lung Cancer Resources
After a lung cancer diagnosis, you need education, support from peers and counselors, access to care and help with finances. Start here.
Good Stuff
Warm Your Heart
Some items to offer comfort from the winter chill
Life With Cancer
Dulcimer Harmonies
Gary and Janice Brunk, of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, fill the oncology clinic with sweet sounds.
Survey
Teamwork
Who is part of your cancer health team?
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