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January 14, 2021 Communication

Cancer Treatment Side Effects: Are Doctors Listening?

A recent study compared what patients said about side effects they were experiencing from radiation treatment with what their doctors reported.

Learning about the meanings of frequently used cancer terms
January 30, 2020 Communication

6 Frequently Used Cancer Terms: What Do They Actually Mean?

In cancer language, it’s not unusual for the medical or scientific meaning of a term to be different from the way the same word is understood in everyday language.

September 3, 2013 Communication

Making Sense of Cancer Research News in the Media

How much of what we read about new “breakthroughs” in cancer research is reliable and how much is distorted? How can we tell the difference?

Welcome! I'm a cancer research advocate who was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 20 years ago at the age of 35. I write about developments in cancer research and a variety of cancer and health-related topics from the patient advocate perspective. Please sign up below to be notified when new posts are published. Thank you!
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