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Your Cancer Road Map: Navigating Life with Resilience

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By Kim Thiboldeaux, Jill Biden (foreword) — 2021

Each year, 1.8 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. Upon learning this difficult news, individuals also have a minefield of complex information to navigate regarding treatment plans, insurance coverage, clinical trials, and more. See more...

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Olympic Swimmer Nathan Adrian on Testicular Cancer Diagnosis: I ‘Felt Betrayed by My Own Body’

For the first time in forever, Nathan Adrian truly has no idea if he’ll have a strong swim Friday. And at this point, it doesn’t really matter to the five-time Olympic gold medalist. He’s simply elated to be back.

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I Was Betrayed by My Body

‘Skin cancer worked its way into my lymph nodes. I was devastated.’

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Doctors Are Having to Make Tough Decisions about Natasha’s Cancer Treatment | Hospital - BBC

The gynaecological oncology department at University Hospital Coventry, led by surgeon Smruta Shanbhag, emerges from the pandemic facing a mounting backlog of suspected cancer patients.

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Shared Decision Making

What is shared decision making? Shared decision making relies on an individual and their families having accurate information and a clear understanding of their situation in order to make the best decision for themselves with their healthcare provider.

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I Thought Being a Health Care Reporter Would Make Cancer Easier. I Was Wrong.

Nothing can prepare you for the immense number of complicated, sometimes life-or-death decisions the disease forces you to make about your own treatment.

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A Food Lover Faces an Unimaginable Choice: Give Up Her Stomach or Risk a Fatal Cancer

I had just learned I carry a genetic mutation that puts me at an incredibly high risk for a rare stomach cancer.

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Making Important Decisions During Cancer: A Survivor’s Story

A sage piece of advice I’d gotten once was to never make any big life decision in an emotional state. Always give yourself time. But what happens when you don’t have time? No person with cancer has the luxury of time. I sure didn’t. So what happens then?

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Cancer Treatment Decisions: 5 Steps to Help You Decide

Here are five steps to guide you in becoming a partner with your doctor in determining and guiding your cancer treatment.

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Understanding Your Options and Making Treatment Decisions

Your cancer care team will teach you about your treatment options. But, there’s lots of information about cancer treatments available from other sources, too. There’s also a lot of misinformation out there.

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How Working Nights and Sleeping Days Can Impact our Health, Cancer Risk

New Fred Hutch study sheds more light on how shift work damages our health — and points toward a potential workaround

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Cancer