Articles About Cancer

1. Defining Your Role as a Cancer Caregiver

   Article - Before you take on the role of caring for someone with cancer, read this comprehensive look at what the job entails --- how to offer the best care and how to avoid burnout.

2. Anti-Cancer Superfoods: Do They Really Work?

   Article - The short answer to this question is -- drum roll, please -- yes. They really do. While studies are ongoing, and in many cases experts still don't know exactly how these superfoods work, there's strong evidence that certain fruits and vegetables rich in plant-based nutrients can both prevent tumors from starting and halt their growth...

3. Cancer Survivors: 8 Lessons We Wish We'd Known

   Article - Most people who have or care for someone with cancer learn hard lessons only by experience. Here, eight lessons about cancer you can learn early now.

4. How to Find Out Exactly What Kind of Cancer Someone Has

   Article - Learn which questions to ask to understand someone's cancer diagnosis, so you can help her make the best treatment decisions and get the care she needs.

5. Cancer Treatment and Nausea: What You Can Do

   Article - Chemotherapy is the number one cause of nausea in cancer patients. The first step to preventing nausea is to take the threat of nausea seriously.

6. How to Create a Strong Cancer Support Team

   Article - Use these guidelines to assemble a cancer support team -- everyone from professional caregivers to family helpers.

7. Understanding Cancer Treatment

   Article - Learn about the basic types of cancer treatments, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy.

8. 6 Things Not to Say to Someone With Breast Cancer

   Article - What do you say to someone with breast cancer? Don't say 'everything is going to be all right.' Learn about the 6 things not to say to someone with breast cancer.

9. 10 Things You Need to Know When Your Parent Is Diagnosed With Cancer

   Article - The initial diagnosis that your parent receives from her doctor may be very clear and specific or it may be quite vague. You may find out that it's a specific type of cancer (such as colon or breast cancer), the doctor may give you more-specific terminology (such as a scientific name or some explanation...

10. Clinical Trials: How to Get an Older Adult Accepted and Enrolled

    Article - How to get an older adult with cancer accepted and enrolled in the best clinical trial available.

11. 10 Essential Documents to Bring to the Oncologist's Office

    Article - Be prepared: The ten crucial pieces of Information you need to have when you visit a cancer doctor.

12. Questions to Ask the Oncologist About a Cancer Diagnosis

    Article - The 20 essential questions to ask the oncologist when a someone is diagnosed with cancer.

13. How to Deal With Hair Loss From Chemotherapy or Radiation

    Article - How to deal with hair loss from chemotherapy. Take care of the scalp, shave, use sunscreen, treat hair gently, and protect eyebrows and eyelashes.

14. Men: Cancer Symptoms You're Most Likely to Ignore

    Article - Many men unknowingly miss cancer symptoms, relying only on checkups, colonoscopies, and other tests. Learn 25 cancer symptoms men commonly ignore.

15. Getting a Second Opinion on a Cancer Diagnosis

    Article - Guidance from Caring.com on when, why, and how to get a second opinion on a cancer diagnosis.

16. Understanding a Cancer Prognosis

    Article - Unlike the diagnosis, which provides information about the type of cancer and where it originated, a cancer prognosis tells you how far the cancer has advanced and what happens next.

17. Cancer and Mouth Sores

    Article - Learn how cancer chemotherapy can produce mouth sores in cancer patients, and how to help prevent mouth sores for loved ones undergoing cancer treatment at Caring.com.

18. Neuropathy and Chemotherapy: What You Can Do

    Article - Chemotherapy can cause neuropathy, the medical term for nerve damage. Here's what you can do to prevent and minimize neuropathy and nerve damage.

19. Nausea: Helping Someone With Cancer Maintain Appetite and Weight

    Article - An action plan for helping someone with cancer boost his appetite so he can get the nutrition he needs.

20. How to Get the Help You Need to Care for Someone With Cancer

    Article - Comprehensive information on getting help when caring for someone with cancer. Related information is available in the cancer section of Caring.com.

21. How to Ask for Help With Cancer Caregiving

    Article - Get support you can use in caring for someone with cancer with this guide to how to ask for assistance and ways to help you may not have thought of.

22. 12 Ways to Cope With "Chemo Brain"

    Article - Strategies for helping someone who's being treated for cancer with issues of memory, concentration, and organization.

23. How to Deal With Hair Loss From Chemotherapy

    Article - How to deal with hair loss from chemotherapy, including scalp care, shaving, sunscreen, treating hair gently, and protecting eyebrows and eyelashes.

24. Chemotherapy and Hair Loss: All Is Not Lost

    Article - Find out which chemotherapy drugs cause complete hair loss and how to use wigs and scarves to help you cope with chemo drug induced hair loss.

25. 6 Things Not to Say to Someone With Cancer

    Article - What do you say to someone with cancer? Don't say 'everything is going to be all right.' Learn about the 6 things not to say to someone with cancer.

26. Understanding Low Platelets

    Article - Why chemotherapy, radiation, and some cancers lower platelet counts, and how a low platelet count might affect treatment.

27. Understanding Low Red Blood Counts

    Article - Read our cancer and red blood cells article and find helpful red blood cells information at Caring.com.

28. How Blood Test Results Can Affect Chemotherapy

    Article - Blood test results and chemotherapy. When undergoing chemotherapy, a lot hinges on the blood test results that precede each chemotherapy session.

29. Coping With Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment

    Article - Hair loss from cancer treatment is a difficult issue for many patients. This article offers guidance to help them cope.

30. Understanding Low White Blood Cell Counts

    Article - White blood cells are the body's best defensive weapons in the fight against germs and disease, so when white blood cell counts drop as a result of chemotherapy, radiation treatment, or certain types of cancer, it puts the patient in a vulnerable position...

31. Cancer Signs and Symptoms

    Article - Read our informative cancer guides to learn about cancer symptoms and how to recognize cancer signs at Caring.com.

32. Managing Treatment for Low Platelets

    Article - Low platelets or thrombocytopenia is a common side effect of chemotherapy or radiation. Learn how to effectively manage low platelet treatment.

33. Managing Low Red Blood Counts

    Article - How to help someone cope with fatigue, weakness, dizziness, and other symptoms of anemia due to a low red blood cell count.

34. Managing Treatment for Low White Blood Cell Count

    Article - When someone's white blood cell count is low, his immune system isn't as strong as usual and he's at increased risk of infection, a condition known as neutropenia. The lower his white blood cell count is -- and the longer it stays low -- the higher the risk that he'll get sick or contract some type of infection...

35. What Is Radiation Therapy?

    Article - Help someone with cancer understand treatment options with this guide to radiation therapy -- what's available and how the different therapies work.

36. Radiation Therapy: A Guide to Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy and the Latest Technology

    Article - Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) offers new cancer treatments. A guide to different IMRTs, how they work, and what each does best.

37. Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Article - How to find and enroll your parent in a clinical trial.

38. 10 Colorectal Cancer Risks

    Article - Some risk factors for colorectal cancer may come as a surprise. Learn the most common colorectal cancer risk factors.

39. Breast Cancer Risks

    Article - Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among older women. Here's how to assess risk factors for breast cancer.

40. Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment: A Beginner's Guide

    Article - A clinical trial may offer your parent an effective cancer drug or treatment. Learn the pros and cons of clinical trials, and how to find one.

41. Breast Cancer Symptoms

    Article - What are the risk factors for breast cancer? Risk factors for breast cancer include family history, overweight, drinking alcohol, and using HRT.

42. Understanding the Prognosis for Breast Cancer

    Article - Understanding the prognosis for breast cancer takes some effort. To understand the prognosis, you'll learn about staging, grading, and various tests.

43. Breast Cancer Treatment: A Beginner's Guide

    Article - The basics of breast cancer treatment aren't so basic. Surgery, chemo, and radiation are just some of the basics in breast cancer treatment.

44. Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Guide to the Latest Technology

    Article - Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) offers new treatments for breast cancer. A guide to different IMRTs, how they work, and what each does best.

45. Chemotherapy and Mouth Sores

    Article - Mouth sores are one of the most common side effects of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Learn how to prevent, treat, and reduce the pain of chemo mouth sores.

46. Defining Your Role as a Breast Cancer Caregiver

    Article - Before you take on the role of caring for someone with breast cancer, be sure you know how to provide the best care and how to avoid burnout.

47. Hand-Foot Syndrome: A Common Side Effect of Breast Cancer Treatment

    Article - Hand-foot syndrome is a common chemotherapy side effect of chemotherapy for breast cancer, but there are ways to prevent and treat this painful inflammation of the skin.

48. Breast Cancer: Hormone Therapy

    Article - Breast cancer patients benefit from hormone therapy because it blocks the effects of hormones on tumor cell growth.

49. Lumpectomy and Partial Mastectomy for Breast Cancer

    Article - Breast cancer patients may be able to get a lumpectomy or partial mastectomy. A lumpectomy or partial mastectomy can be less-disfiguring options.

50. What I Wish I'd Known Before Beginning Chemotherapy

    Article - What should you expect during chemotherapy? Even doctors don't know everything. Read top tips about chemotherapy from cancer patients themselves.

51. Women: Cancer Symptoms You're Most Likely to Ignore

    Article - Many women unknowingly miss cancer symptoms, relying only on pap smears and mammograms. Learn 20 cancer symptoms women commonly ignore.

52. An Aspirin a Day Keeps Colon Cancer at Bay

    Article - Taking a low dose of a daily aspirin can lower the risk of death from colorectal cancer significantly, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study investigated aspirin use among patients with Stage I colorectal cancer, and found they reduced their risk of cancer death by 29 percent...

53. 15 Questions to Ask About Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer

    Article - There have been so many advances in radiation therapy in the past few years that choosing a therapeutic approach is not as simple as it used to be. Here are some questions that you or your parent will want to ask her oncologist when deciding on a plan of treatment.

54. Understanding Your Type of Lung Cancer

55. Genetics and Cancer - The Genetics of Lung Cancer

    Article - The majority of lung cancers (90 percent) are due to cigarette smoking. A number of diverse genetic abnormalities have been identified in lung cancer cells. Some of these genetic abnormalities may be causal (i.e., responsible for initiating the development of cancer), while others may instead indicate the progression of the cancer...

56. How Can I Prevent Liver Cancer?

    Article - Doctors do not know of any way to prevent liver cancer. You should avoid risk factors as much as possible. Below are some ways to avoid risk factors.

57. 7 Ways to Support Someone With Breast Cancer

    Article - A breast cancer diagnosis is terrifying; treatment is difficult at best. What women with breast cancer say they need most from partners and friends.

58. 10 Things Your Bladder Says About Your Health

    Article - Bladder problems can strike adults of all ages, and they can signal a larger health problem. Learn ten possible reasons for urinary tract symptoms.

59. Psychosocial Factors

    Article - Psychosocial factors are those factors that affect a person psychologically or socially.

60. 5 New Breath Tests That Could Save Your Life

    Article - Find out about the chemistry of breath and what it could tell you about your health

61. 5 Surprising Signs of Breast Cancer

    Article - Most women know to check for breast lumps that may signal cancer. But other signs may be even earlier clues to breast cancer. Know what to look for.

62. Cancer Symptoms You're Most Likely to Ignore

    Article - Routine tests and checkups, like pap smears and colonoscopies, are important -- but don't rely on tests alone to protect you from cancer. It's just as important to listen to your body and notice anything that's different, odd, or unexplainable...

63. 5 Most Surprising Reasons to Drink Coffee

    Article - Coffee lovers may worry about how much they're drinking. But recent research indicates many good reasons to reach for a daily cup -- or cups.

64. 5 Most Surprising Reasons to Drink Tea

    Article - Tea is increasingly popular in the U.S., and it can also be good for you. Here are the 5 best health reasons to drink tea -- black, green, or white.

65. 9 Spices With Super-Healing Powers

    Article - Spices do more than jazz up the taste of food -- they can also contribute significant health benefits. Here, 9 spices with healing powers.

66. Actinic Keratosis: 5 Things to Know About This Common Precancerous Skin Abnormality

    Article - Actinic keratosis is a common skin condition that can occasionally turn into skin cancer. Know what actinic keratosis looks like and how to treat it.

67. Treatment Options for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer

    Article - Most skin cancers are not melanoma. Learn what the common nonmelanoma skin cancers are and the pros and cons of different ways to treat them.

68. Skin Cancer: What to Know About the Three Main Types

    Article - Skin cancer -- common in the U.S. -- comes in three main forms. Learn the three types of skin cancer and the risks associated with each.

69. Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Beginner's Guide

    Article - Make sense of the confusing world of radiation therapy for breast cancer.

70. Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer Treatment: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Article - How to find and enroll in a clinical trial for breast cancer treatment.

71. How to Get the Help You'll Need to Care for Your Parent With Breast Cancer

    Article - Comprehensive information on getting help when caring for a parent with breast cancer. Related information is available in the cancer section of Caring.com.

72. What Is Breast Cancer?

    Article - Breast cancer, a malignant tumor or tumors, is curable if caught early. Learn about breast cancer tests, diagnoses, stages, and survival rates.

73. Tests That Help Evaluate Lung Cancer

    Article - Your doctor took a biopsy to know if you have cancer. He or she took a sample of cells from either your lung or the surrounding fluids.

74. Stages of Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Article - Small cell lung cancer is staged differently. These are the two stages of small cell lung cancer: limited and extensive.

75. What Is Liver Cancer?

76. Can I Get Checked for Liver Cancer Before I Have Symptoms?

    Article - Screening tests check for problems when there are no symptoms. There are no standard screening methods used to find liver cancer in people at average risk. If you have risk factors for liver cancer, you should talk with a doctor.

77. What Are the Symptoms of Liver Cancer?

    Article - You can have liver cancer for months or years before developing any symptoms. Symptoms of liver cancer do not usually appear until the cancer grows. When it grows, it pushes against other parts of the liver or organs in the abdomen.

78. Screening for Prostate Cancer

    Article - More men die each year of prostate cancer (an estimated 27,000 annually) than of any other cancer except lung cancer. But not every man who has this disease (about 192,000 annually) is in danger of dying of it. And sometimes the treatment can produce side effects that may be more troublesome than the cancer...

79. 8 Preventive Screenings Medicare Will Cover

    Article - Medicare covers a considerable amount of preventive medicine, and beginning in 2011 it will cover even more. Medicare Part B covers a number of important screening tests -- as of January 1, 2011, paying 100 percent of the cost -- if the person you're caring for meets certain conditions...

80. Getting a Second Opinion After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    Article - Why you should get a second opinion after a breast cancer diagnosis from an oncologist -- and why a second opinion from a pathologist is a good idea.

81. How to Understand Blood Test Results for Breast Cancer Treatment

    Article - Blood test results before chemo sessions are important in breast cancer treatment. Results of blood tests like CBCs help show how you handle chemo.

82. Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer Treatment: A Beginner's Guide

    Article - A clinical trial may offer an effective breast cancer drug or treatment that's not available any other way. Learn the pros and cons of clinical trials and how to find one.

83. Nausea and Breast Cancer Treatment: What You Can Do

    Article - Chemotherapy is the number one cause of nausea in breast cancer patients. The first step to preventing nausea is to take the threat of nausea seriously.

84. How to Manage Treatment for Low Platelets

    Article - During breast cancer treatment, be alert for the dangers of uncontrolled bleeding caused by a low blood platelet count (thrombocytopenia).

85. Breast Cancer Treatment and Low Red Blood Counts

    Article - How breast cancer treatment affects red blood counts -- and what you can do.

86. Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer and Neuropathy: What You Can Do

    Article - Chemotherapy for breast cancer can cause neuropathy, the medical term for nerve damage. Here's how to prevent and minimize neuropathy and nerve damage.

87. Breast Cancer Treatment: Coping With "Chemo Brain"

    Article - Breast cancer treatment can cause "chemo brain"; strategies for helping someone being treated for breast cancer cope with memory, concentration, and organization problems

88. How to Ask for Help With Breast Cancer Caregiving

    Article - Get support you can use in caring for a parent with cancer with this guide to how to ask for assistance and ways to help you may not have thought of.

89. Breast Cancer Surgery: When Mastectomy Is Best

    Article - Mastectomy is best for a breast cancer patient if she has a large tumor or tumors in over 1/4 of her breast. You can help her recover from mastectomy.

90. How to Prevent Cancer & Improve Your Chances of Survival After Diagnosis

    Article - Today's public awareness campaigns work to teach Americans how to prevent cancer and also increase their chances of survival after a cancer diagnosis; however, it appears many are not listening to the message. In 2008, the American Cancer Society projected the diagnosis of approximately 1.44 million new cases of cancer, totaling between 3 to 4% of the U...

91. Statistics About Lung Cancer

92. Am I At Risk for Lung Cancer?

    Article - There is no sure way to know if you’re going to get lung cancer. Certain factors can make you more likely to get lung cancer than another person. These are called risk factors. However, just because you have one or more risk factors does not necessarily mean you will get lung cancer. In fact, you cacan have many risk factors and still not get lung cancer...

93. Can I Get Checked for Lung Cancer Before I Have Symptoms?

94. What Are the Symptoms of Lung Cancer?

95. How Does My Doctor Know I Have Lung Cancer?

    Article - If you’re having lung-cancer-like symptoms, your doctor will want to know why. Your doctor is likely to ask you questions about your:

96. Making the Decision to Have Surgery for Lung Cancer

97. Gene Therapy: Targeting the Cause of Lung Cancer to Treat It

    Article - The American Cancer Society estimates that about 160,000 people die of lung cancer each year. This is more than the deaths caused by the next three leading cancers--colon, breast, and prostate--combined. The current treatment of lung cancer often includes combinations of chemotherapy drugs...

98. Photodynamic Therapy: A Bright Approach to Lung Cancer Treatment

99. I’ve Just Been Told I Have Lung Cancer

100. What to Know About Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer

     Article - Radiation therapy is also called radiotherapy. It’s one more way to treat lung cancer. It’s most often used with surgery. Or it may be used alone or with chemotherapy. The goal of radiation is to kill cancer cells. It directs strong X-rays at the tumor. To get this treatment, you see a radiation onc oncologist...