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MenWomenOlder adultsChildren/adolescentsTreatment optionsCoping with the side effects of cancer treatmentCoping with the side effects of cancer treatmentLiving with cancerSupport groups
What are the latest treatments for cancer?
Should you take part in a clinical trial?
What cancer screening tests should you be getting, and how often?
What can you do to reduce the side effects of cancer and cancer therapy?
Our consumer-focused feature articles address these questions and many others.
These articles are written by medical professionals including
physicians, nurses, and dietitians,
and are reviewed by our expert medical review board.
Populations
Men
- Tips for coping with mouth, gum, and throat problems related to radiation therapy
- Palliative care for cancer
- Restoring sexual function after prostate surgery
- Men's health matters
- Conditions men get too
- Don't be afraid of colorectal cancer screening
- Fighting prostate cancer: eat your way to victory
- Health screening for men: when you should go to the doctor and why
- Practical prevention: testicular cancer strikes young
- Testicular cancer: curing the most common young men's cancer
- Testicular self exam
- Your health may be "all in the family"
Women
- True or false: Hair dye causes cancer
- Fibrocystic breast changes: lumps that are normal
- Alcohol and breast cancer
- Cancer treatment and fertility in women
- MammoSite®: A new internal radiation device for breast cancer treatment
- Cancer tests that can save your life
- Don't be afraid of colorectal cancer screening
- Faslodex - a new option for breast cancer treatment
- Health screenings for women
- Herceptin - a new hope for women with advanced breast cancer
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Hormone replacement therapy: a look at the options
- Reclaiming sexuality after gynecologic cancer
- Sex after hysterectomy: never better
- There is sex after breast cancer
- When your best friend has breast cancer
- Your health may be "all in the family"
Children/adolescents
- Can your child benefit from counseling
- Childhood cancers: long-term effects of treatment
- How childhood cancers differ from adult cancers
- Practical prevention: testicular cancer strikes young
- Telling your kids about your terminal illness
- Testicular cancer: curing the most common young men's cancer
- Testicular self exam
- Your health may be "all in the family"
Treatments
Treatment options
- Biologic therapies
- Bone marrow transplantation
- Chemotherapy
- Faslodex - a new option for breast cancer treatment
- Herceptin - a new hope for women with advanced breast cancer
- Hormonal therapy
- Laetrile: is it really the pits?
- Radiation therapy
- Should you take part in a clinical trial?
- Surgery and other procedures
- Testicular cancer: curing the most common young men's cancer
Coping with the side effects of cancer treatment
- Coping with fatigue from chemotherapy
- Childhood cancers: long-term effects of treatment
- Coping with blood clotting problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with constipation related to chemotherapy
- Coping with diarrhea related to chemotherapy
- Coping with hair loss from chemotherapy
- Coping with kidney and bladder changes due to chemotherapy
- Coping with mouth, gum, and throat problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy
- Coping with nerve and muscle effects related to chemotherapy
- Coping with pain related to cancer and chemotherapy
- Coping with radiation recall dermatitis
- Coping with sexual problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with skin and hair problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with the side effects of chemotherapy
- Managing side effects of cancer and cancer treatment
Support
Coping with the side effects of cancer treatment
- Tips for coping with mouth, gum, and throat problems related to radiation therapy
- Palliative care for cancer
- Restoring sexual function after prostate surgery
- Coping with fatigue from chemotherapy
- When your best friend has breast cancer
- Caregiver stress: the impact of chronic disease on the family
- Sperm banking: fertility options for men undergoing cancer treatment
- Eating well while receiving chemotherapy
- Childhood cancers: long-term effects of treatment
- Coping with blood clotting problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with constipation related to chemotherapy
- Coping with diarrhea related to chemotherapy
- Coping with hair loss from chemotherapy
- Coping with kidney and bladder changes due to chemotherapy
- Coping with mouth, gum, and throat problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy
- Coping with nerve and muscle effects related to chemotherapy
- Coping with pain related to cancer and chemotherapy
- Coping with radiation recall dermatitis
- Coping with sexual problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with skin and hair problems related to chemotherapy
- Coping with the side effects of chemotherapy
- Managing side effects of cancer and cancer treatment
Living with cancer
- Living with Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Living with bladder cancer
- Living with brain tumor
- Living with breast cancer
- Living with cervical cancer
- Living with colon cancer
- Living with kidney cancer
- Living with leukemia
- Living with lung cancer
- Living with melanoma
- Living with multiple myeloma
- Living with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Living with ovarian cancer
- Living with prostate cancer
- Living with testicular cancer
- Living with thyroid cancer
- Living with uterine cancer
