Spring 2007 

Trust is easily undermined when you're diagnosed with cancer, writes CR Editor-in-Chief Gwen Darien.

A decline in breast cancer rates may be due to a drop in the use of hormone replacement therapy.

Doctors' financial ties don't worry many cancer patients.

Smoking combined with viral infection boosts cervical cancer risk.

Colonoscopies jump with Medicare expansion.

When a woman's breast cancer stops her from riding her bike to raise money for cancer research, her daughter takes over the job.

Facing a family crisis is doubly difficult when the people you trust are insensitive or, even worse, abandon you.

A new study of breast cancer patients with disabilities reveals that an overlooked patient group is not receiving the care it needs.

What do uncertainties in cancer research funding mean for new therapies? Survivorship? Clinical trials? Health care disparities?

Two-time Nobel laureate Marie Curie predicted that radiation would one day be used to help treat a wide range of cancers. She didn't foresee the progress against her own family's cancer.

Thanks to recent medical advances, cancer patients are living longer than ever-but sometimes with significant pain. Can we get better pain control?

Despite her role as a top-rated New York City radio host, Valerie Smaldone never knew how to talk about illness. Her diagnosis of ovarian cancer changed all of that.

Cancer cells have evaded a self-destruct program that makes damaged cells pack up and die. Researchers are trying to get the process going again.

Most of us want tests that can identify cancer at its earliest stages. But determining whether a screening method actually saves lives is not a straightforward task.

After her husband's cancer diagnosis, nurse Peggy Anthony returned to oncology and found that treatments-and outlooks-had improved considerably since her early days in the field.

Before you make diet changes based on the latest cancer research findings, think twice. Food research is a complicated science.

Researchers have calculated a value for the time cancer patients spend being treated.

A cancer survivor uses humor to get him through his treatments.

Here are seven steps to develop a positive and productive partnership.

To raise awareness of brain cancer, a survivor collaborated with his friend on a series of brain tumor art.

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