Supportive Care

Patients were no more likely to switch away from lower-tiered physicians than higher-tiered physicians within their health plan, especially if the physician was considered the patient's personal doctor

Efforts to evaluate cancer survivorship programs are a daunting task according to a technical brief issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Brisk walking helps normalize the shape of vessels in prostate cancer tumors, which may make the tumors less aggressive and more responsive to anti-cancer therapies

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) improved survival and reduced toxicities compared with conventional radiation treatment in patients with head and neck cancer, according to a recent database analysis.

Traditionally, palliative care for patients with cancer is geared towards end-of-life measures, but a new study from the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto suggests patients who receive palliative care earlier in their cancer therapy report improved quality of life and greater satisfaction.

Eltrombopag has received a Breakthrough Therapy designation from the FDA for the treatment of cytopenias in patients with severe aplastic anemia who have had insufficient response to immunosuppressive therapy.

So many new agents for the treatment of men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have been introduced in the past several years that optimal sequencing of therapies remains an unsettled question.

Ayalew Tefferi, MD, hematologist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, discusses the toxicity of imetelstat in patients with myelofibrosis.

Men who experience hot flashes because they are undergoing androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer are not significantly helped by two treatments that alleviate that symptom in menopausal women, the results of a study show.

Both men and women report a significant decline in sexual satisfaction after hematopoietic cell transplantation that is sustained at 3-year follow-up.

It's been well established now that cancer survivorship begins on the day of diagnosis. Despite the positive spin that this presents for patients, families, friends, and coworkers, most people still associate cancer survivorship with completing treatment and getting on with life.