Opioids are in the news a lot lately because of the national epidemic of misuse and addiction involving these powerful painkillers and street drugs. So, some patients may understandably feel uneasy about taking prescription opioids to control their cancer p...

Prostate cancer can be treated with either surgery or radiation therapy. For men who were initially treated with radiation therapy alone, prostate cancer can return in up to 40-50 percent of cases (Zelefsky et al). Prostate cancer recurrence after failed ra...

Updated: January 28, 2021Chemo brain is the mental cloudiness or "brain fog" that many cancer patients experience after chemotherapy. This mental fog may mean you forget things you used to automatically remember.You may have trouble focusing, particularly i...

 “It made me feel that being alone in this situation was not the loneliest feeling in the world. It made me realize that the other people were also going through the feelings I was having but dealing with them much better than I was. They were living t...

  Jessica Wagner Graduate StudentWafik El-Deiry’s [email protected]/in/jessica-wagner-19096a105/  BiographyI grew up surrounded by farms and orchards in rural Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, a small town due south of ...