Practical Knowledge Archive

Amid continued research showing the impact of COVID-19 on people with cancer, patients are asking when they should get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Coping strategies can help with cancer-related cognitive impairments.

Eating tree nuts may decrease cancer risk, especially for cancers of the digestive system.

Cancer survivors have higher rates of depression than the general population, but many don’t know help is available.

When a loved one has advanced cancer, it’s common to mourn the loss that hasn’t happened yet.

As the pandemic continues, cancer patients and survivors must weight fears of possible infection with their need to live fully.

Effective treatments are available for nausea during chemotherapy, but they aren’t always used.

Lessons from early in the pandemic are helping doctors care for patients during the current surge.

Medical oncologists weigh in on the FDA’s approval of an immunotherapy drug for tumors with high tumor mutational burden regardless of tumor type.

Pancreatic cancer survivor Rob Weker reflects on how assembling the right team helped him through his diagnosis.