Cancer Survivors&#39; Quality Of Life Below The Norm
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Even after more than a decade after diagnosis, cancer survivors may have a poorer quality of life and more health limitations than others their age, according to a US study.
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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer survivors are 37 percent more likely to commit suicide than other women, and the elevated risk persists for at least 25 years after diagnosis, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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When a person is first  diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may  suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer  work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study  findings show.
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(HealthDay News) - Not everyone recovering from cancer is physically or mentally able to exercise.
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Staying slim and fit is especially important for cancer survivors, because obesity raises the risk of cancer coming back, the American Cancer Society said in new guidelines issued on Wednesday.
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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Approximately half of the patients in the US with aggressive non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma (NHL) are not receiving the full dose of chemotherapy that is recommended
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Many cancer survivors say they are committed to helping others with the disease or to solve a particular problem that they encountered in their own treatment.
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Surgery for lung cancer can  have a substantial impact on long-term, health-related quality  of life, the results of a study published in the current issue  of the Journal of Clinical Oncology suggest.
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Radiation therapy after surgery greatly reduces the chances a woman&#39;s breast cancer will recur, a new study confirms. But follow-up radiation treatment was of the least benefit to women aged 60 or older with
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - The psychological well-being of  patients after lung transplantation is not significantly  different from that in the general population, results of a  small study suggest. However, increased psychological distress  was found in a subgroup of transplant patients.
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MONDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Half of all  people with advanced or terminal cancer suffer from depression, anxiety or adjustment disorders and could use their oncologist&#39;s help getting treatment, according to a new study.