A common saying regarding prostate cancer is that patients will “die with prostate cancer, but not from it.” This is largely true for the majority of the approximately 200,000 new cases diagnosed yearly in the United States, but the prognosis is quite different among patients with advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. Of these cases, a [...]
Palliative care is a specialized area of medicine that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients, and their families. By its very definition, it should be used for every patient at all times. However, somehow the phrase gained a stigma that it is the equivalent to hospice care, something used when the end [...]
The thing about cancer is, when you’re first diagnosed, it’s something that is completely foreign to you,” says Bill Donahue, prostate cancer survivor and member of Touched by Cancer’s focus group. “Even if someone close to you went through it, when it happens to you, you are just stunned. And because you have no experience [...]
10 Things Your Doctor Wants You to Know Some people may get a front-row seat for the cancer experience with a friend or loved one, and some unfortunate people go through it themselves more than once, but for the majority of those with cancer, their first few trips in for a diagnosis and treatment plan [...]
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