Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are a rare form of blood cancer. Though most people don’t know a lot about, approximately 20,000 people develop MPNs each year. Here are the basics you can explain to a concerned patient.
Although many Americans are at risk of developing colorectal cancer, they may not be aware of their own specific risk factors that they could have for it. What should medical professionals be teaching their patients about on regarding the risks, symptoms, detection, and prevention of colorectal cancer?
Although chronic kidney disease (CKD) is among the more common kidney ailments, patients may not be well-versed in its symptoms or complications. What should patients know about CKD, and how should healthcare providers be educating them?
Despite how common prostate cancer is in American men, misconceptions about its symptoms, detection, treatment, and management persist.
Patients may neglect their skin health when the weather gets cold, but they remain at risk of damaging their skin and developing cancer in the winter, too. What winter-specific risk factors can clinicians discuss with patients?
Researchers have found a concerning level of distress in oncologists as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that needs to be addressed so that they can better treat their patients and safeguard their own mental health.
Smoking is consistently seen as a risk for various cancers, and in recent years it has been connected to colorectal cancer in particular.
As this research finds that many patients are distressed enough to require some form of intervention, a number of stress-reduction techniques are provided that can be easily put into practice.
Researchers looked at dozens of studies and found an association between a number of psychosocial variables and quality of life in breast cancer survivors.
Researchers examined data from patients who were treated for Hodgkin lymphoma between 2009 and 2013 who had received radiation therapy as part of their treatment.
