Bette Weinstein Kaplan

Glen Heroy talks about his years as a clown who offered pediatric oncology patients a chance to forget they were sick, if only for 5 minutes.

Where patients spend their final days has an impact on the quality of life at the end of their life, as well as their caregivers’ mental health after their death.

A new study reveals that weight lifting, once banned after lymph node removal, can prevent lymphedema or lessen its symptoms.

A good sex life with a loving partner offers comfort, reassurance, intimacy, and caring—but it isn’t always so easy for someone during or after cancer treatment.

For patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, early palliative care can lead to improved mood and quality of life, longer survival, and less aggressive end-of-life care.

Social media is not just about Facebook anymore. Now, it’s also about surviving cancer.

Harvard’s Atul Gawande writes on the issue of palliative care versus technological intervention during the end-of-life experience.

Zoledronic acid is a third-generation bisphosphonate prescribed to reduce pain from bony metastases, treat hypercalcemia of malignancy, and manage osteolytic lesions in multiple myeloma.

Centralized telephone medical management, with automated symptom monitoring and a long distance reach, improved cancer patients’ pain and depression.

Depression accompanies the disease in some people with cancer; in some depression may even predict outcome.