Summer 2007 | CURE

July 09, 2009

Health insurance resources for cancer survivors.

July 09, 2009

A cancer survivor's health insurance picture may change under various job scenarios.

July 09, 2009

What does Medicare cover when it comes to screening for colorectal cancer?

July 09, 2009

Despite the gains noted in the overall number of Medicare patients undergoing colonoscopy, researchers continue to see differences in colorectal cancer screening rates among certain groups, particularly minorities.

June 12, 2009

A timeline for the development of awareness about cancer survivorship.

June 09, 2009

Beauty shopping for survivors and patients undergoing cancer treatment.

March 30, 2009

March 30, 2009

Fast facts about Richard Roundtree and his battle with breast cancer.

June 11, 2007

Patients log on to access medical records and talk with doctors.

June 11, 2007

What happens to cancer tissue and why it's so valuable to researchers.

June 11, 2007

Patients face how cancer will define them once treatment ends.

June 11, 2007

When caregivers feel they have no choice, the challenging role can take its toll.

June 11, 2007

Minimally invasive technologies transform the landscape of cancer surgery.

June 11, 2007

Dana Reeve's death revealed the other face of lung cancer.

June 11, 2007

A portal is a specialized website with a heap of helpful features for doctor patient communication and following a few guidelines and tips on how to use a portal can help.

June 11, 2007

Researchers point to several cancer treatments and tests that emerged from tissue specimens and predict more will follow.

June 11, 2007

Companies and public banks collect and store blood from the umbilical cord and placenta for stem cell transplants to treat blood disorders such as leukemia or lymphoma.

June 11, 2007

Exposing the ethical dilemmas of clinical trials reveals a balance between researchers, drug companies, and patients.

June 11, 2007

A cancer survivor doesn’t consider surviving cancer a personal victory, but is grateful for each day.

June 11, 2007

What's to blame for lung cancer in people who never smoked, and what that means for treatment and survival.

June 11, 2007

Gender plays a role in caregiving experience: male caregivers often deal better with physical rather than psychosocial support, whereas the opposite may be true for women.

June 11, 2007

Young adults with cancer create a movement through music, and they’re taking it on the road.

June 11, 2007

Cancer—the uninvited teacher— leaves a new understanding of what’s important.

June 11, 2007

Readers respond to past articles on the age factor, men as caregivers and advocates, and online information resources.

June 11, 2007

Drug companies’ advertisements promoting their wares directly to consumers have soared since 1997.

June 11, 2007

What patients eat may boost energy.

June 11, 2007

Patients honor their oncology nurses.

June 11, 2007

Minimally invasive techniques help detect and diagnose cancer earlier.

June 11, 2007

Surgeons learn new minimally invasive and robotic surgery techniques to remove and find early-stage tumors.

June 11, 2007

Terminal cancer patients whose tumors don’t respond to standard treatment have limited options, especially those with aggressive cancers that have become resistant to various treatment regimens.

June 11, 2007

Data collection doesn’t end when a clinical trial ends, as rare or long-term side effects of a new drug or treatment may take years to emerge.

June 11, 2007

Questions to ask yourself before enrolling in a clinical trial.

June 11, 2007

Tumors of people who never smoked are more likely to respond to certain types of drugs.

June 11, 2007

Early lung cancer screening for high-risk people, including smokers, is an emotional and debatable topic.

June 11, 2007

Therapies that preferentially target lung cancers harboring certain EGFR mutations can be effective in some lung cancers in never-smokers.

June 11, 2007

The ethics of animal testing are fiercely debated.

June 11, 2007

Although non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer, a handful of other primary cancers affect the delicate organ.

June 11, 2007

The ethics of cancer research and how it affects you.

June 11, 2007

The FDA approves third kidney cancer drug and blood-clotting therapy while delaying review on a prostate cancer vaccine, and one drug edges another in a colorectal cancer clinical trial.

June 11, 2007

Updates from the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on liver, kidney, lung, colon, pancreatic and breast cancers.

June 11, 2007

Genetic nondiscrimination bill on its way to becoming law.

June 11, 2007

The Anderson Network's Living Fully with and Beyond Cancer conference in Houston.

June 11, 2007

Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow.

June 11, 2007

A second HPV vaccine proves effective in preventing cervical cancer.

June 11, 2007

Are the drugs to treat anemia safe?

June 11, 2007

Gamers take virtual shot at cancer.

June 11, 2007

14-year-old brain tumor survivor Jimmy Fowkes turns shaved heads and a bike into cash for cancer.

June 11, 2007

Survivor chronicles her life with metastatic breast cancer in Slapped Awake.

June 11, 2007

Protecting bone health in childhood cancer survivors.

June 11, 2007

Sunstone Cancer Support Centers offer desert oasis.

April 09, 2007

Things to remember before beginning tai chi.