cancer patients

Nearly half of cancer patients in England are cutting back on basic essentials like food to pay for prescriptions, a poll suggests.

Cancer patients are more likely to think they would be "better off dead" than the rest of the population, a study shows.

(American Cancer Society) A new study finds many cancer patients use complementary and alternative methods, most often prayer, relaxation, supplements, meditation, and massage.

Meanwhile, the use of other methods, such as biofeedback, homeopathy and acupressure, are relatively uncommon.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) The field of personalized cancer research and treatment grows with each day.

One of the first things people do when they are diagnosed with cancer is go online and look up their disease. The Internet has become a patient's best friend -- for better or worse.

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Why do cancer patients develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs, sometimes abruptly, after a period in which the drugs seem to be working well to reduce tumors or hold them in check?

Although largely a mystery to scientists, the result when this occurs is all too familiar: patients relapse and in many cases die when their cancers become resistant.

Food & Friends, a nonprofit organization that provides meals and other nutritional services to homebound HIV-AIDS and cancer patients across the Washington region, is scaling back its services, citing declining donations and rising fuel and food costs.

Drug treatment which stops a woman's periods may protect against the effects of chemotherapy, a study suggests.

(European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology) Researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible to stimulate a woman's ovaries to produce eggs for collection during the final phase of the menstrual cycle.

The finding offers the chance for more women who have been diagnosed with cancer to restore their fertility following chemotherapy or radiotherapy -- cancer treatments that can seriously damage the ovaries, often permanently.

Researchers say they have found a new treatment for cancer patients suffering depression