Take Charge of Cancer
Speak, Learn, Participate: Three Verbs That Can Change Your Life With Cancer (The first in a two-post blog series) Feeling unsure about aspects of your cancer treatment, but are afraid to speak up? Studies show if you learn to self-advocate, you’ll have a better quality of life in all phases of treatment and beyond. You may find you take on a number of roles as you play out your life with cancer. Some days you are a warrior—Thor, wielding his hammer of protection and healing.
Meeting Information Needs of Cancer Patients
Learning to sail your own ship Author Anthony J. D’Angelo wrote, “In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” No doubt cancer patients know this feeling all too well. Where exactly is that safe harbor between too much information and not enough? To understand patients’ health information needs, researchers conducted narrative interviews with 127 people with breast, prostate or colorectal cancer and published their findings in BMJ Open. They dis
