Treatment Decision-Making Part 1: Discussing End-of-Life Care
For people facing a cancer diagnosis, the path to completing cancer treatment can be long and difficult. The goal—to eliminate the cancer and go back to “normal.” However, for patients with advanced or stage 4 cancer, this goal may no longer be feasible. Patients face many tough decisions throughout the course of treatment, but one of the toughest decisions is deciding when it’s time to stop tr...
55m May 16, 2017
55m
Treatment Decision-Making Part 1: Discussing End-of-Life Care
For people facing a cancer diagnosis, the path to completing cancer treatment can be long and difficult. The goal—to eliminate the cancer and go back to “normal.”
55m May 16, 2017
55m
Treatment Decision-Making Part 1: Discussing End-of-Life Care
For people facing a cancer diagnosis, the path to completing cancer treatment can be long and difficult. The goal—to eliminate the cancer and go back to “normal.”
55m May 16, 2017
55m
What You Need to Know about the Cost of Your Cancer Care
Hearing that you or someone you love has cancer can be overwhelming. Questions abound: Will I (or my loved one) survive? How will my family be affected? Will my insurance cover my care? Will I be able to work through treatment or will I need to take time off from work? Will my family be burdened with huge expenses? For some, the questions come all at once. For others, they arrive one by one. Ha...
58m May 09, 2017
58m
What You Need to Know about the Cost of Your Cancer Care
Hearing that you or someone you love has cancer can be overwhelming. Questions abound: Will I (or my loved one) survive? How will my family be affected? Will my insurance cover my care? Will I be able to work through treatment or will I need to take time off from work? Will my family be burdened with huge expenses? For some, the questions come all at once. For others, they arrive one by one. Ha...
58m May 09, 2017
58m
What You Need to Know about the Cost of Your Cancer Care
Hearing that you or someone you love has cancer can be overwhelming. Questions abound: Will I (or my loved one) survive? How will my family be affected?
58m May 09, 2017
58m
What You Need to Know about the Cost of Your Cancer Care
Hearing that you or someone you love has cancer can be overwhelming. Questions abound: Will I (or my loved one) survive? How will my family be affected?
58m May 09, 2017
58m
Encore: Going Gray in May
May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month. In the United States, there are nearly 700,000 people living with a primary brain or central nervous system tumor, and there will about 78,000 new primary brain tumor diagnoses made this year. To help us learn more about brain tumors and living well with this diagnosis, guest host Linda House is joined by Dr. Nicholas Blondin.
58m May 02, 2017
58m
Encore: Going Gray in May
May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month. In the United States, there are nearly 700,000 people living with a primary brain or central nervous system tumor, and there will about 78,000 new primary brain tumor diagnoses made this year. To help us learn more about brain tumors and living well with this diagnosis, guest host Linda House is joined by Dr. Nicholas Blondin.
58m May 02, 2017
58m
Encore: Going Gray in May
May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month. In the United States, there are nearly 700,000 people living with a primary brain or central nervous system tumor, and there will about 78,000 new primary brain tumor diagnoses made this year.
58m May 02, 2017
58m
Encore: Understanding Professional Grief
Although social service professionals are trained to help their clients cope with the grief that accompanies a loss, there is often little formal training on how these professionals should process their own grief when a client passes away. Social workers, nurses, physicians, clergy members, professional caregivers and others in similar occupations that experience death on a regular and continuo...
56m Apr 25, 2017
56m
Encore: Understanding Professional Grief
Although social service professionals are trained to help their clients cope with the grief that accompanies a loss, there is often little formal training on how these professionals should process their own grief when a client passes away. Social workers, nurses, physicians, clergy members, professional caregivers and others in similar occupations that experience death on a regular and continuo...
56m Apr 25, 2017
56m
Encore: Understanding Professional Grief
Although social service professionals are trained to help their clients cope with the grief that accompanies a loss, there is often little formal training on how these professionals should process their own grief when a client passes away.
56m Apr 24, 2017
56m
Advancing Research for Pancreatic Cancer
In 2016, an estimated 53,000 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer—making it the 12th most common cancer in the United States. Unfortunately though, only about 7.7% of patients with pancreatic cancer survive with the disease beyond five years. This difficult-to-treat disease relies on new and innovative therapies to provide hope and support to patients and families impacted by this diagn...
59m Apr 18, 2017
59m
Advancing Research for Pancreatic Cancer
In 2016, an estimated 53,000 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer—making it the 12th most common cancer in the United States. Unfortunately though, only about 7.7% of patients with pancreatic cancer survive with the disease beyond five years. This difficult-to-treat disease relies on new and innovative therapies to provide hope and support to patients and families impacted by this diagn...
59m Apr 18, 2017
59m
Advancing Research for Pancreatic Cancer
In 2016, an estimated 53,000 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer—making it the 12th most common cancer in the United States.
59m Apr 18, 2017
59m
Advancing Research for Pancreatic Cancer
In 2016, an estimated 53,000 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer—making it the 12th most common cancer in the United States.
59m Apr 18, 2017
59m
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Every day, patients meet with doctors to discuss their health and wellness. Yet, these meetings can be frustrating and unsatisfactory for both patient and doctor alike. On this episode of Frankly Speaking About Cancer, Dr. Danielle Ofri brings special insight on this topic, having recently written the book “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear.”
59m Apr 11, 2017
59m
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Every day, patients meet with doctors to discuss their health and wellness. Yet, these meetings can be frustrating and unsatisfactory for both patient and doctor alike. On this episode of Frankly Speaking About Cancer, Dr. Danielle Ofri brings special insight on this topic, having recently written the book “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear.”
59m Apr 11, 2017
59m
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Every day, patients meet with doctors to discuss their health and wellness.
59m Apr 11, 2017
59m
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Every day, patients meet with doctors to discuss their health and wellness.
59m Apr 11, 2017
59m
Encore: Patient Perspectives: Cancer Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are an extremely important in finding new ways to treat cancer and help patients live well with their diagnosis. On this episode of Frankly Speaking Cancer, host Kim Thiboldeaux is joined by four guests with four different clinical trial experiences who will each share their stories of how participating in a clinical trial gave them each hope.
56m Mar 28, 2017
56m
Encore: Patient Perspectives: Cancer Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are an extremely important in finding new ways to treat cancer and help patients live well with their diagnosis. On this episode of Frankly Speaking Cancer, host Kim Thiboldeaux is joined by four guests with four different clinical trial experiences who will each share their stories of how participating in a clinical trial gave them each hope.
56m Mar 28, 2017
56m
Encore: Patient Perspectives: Cancer Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are an extremely important in finding new ways to treat cancer and help patients live well with their diagnosis.
56m Mar 24, 2017
56m
Encore: The Importance of Clinical Trial Participation
Cancer clinical trials provide patients with access to new therapies. When a patient participates in a clinical trial they are helping to move cancer treatment forward and provide hope for the future of cancer care. However, less than 1/3 of all cancer clinical trials meet their recruitment goals, and only 2-3% of adults participate in a clinical trial. On this episode of Frankly Speaking About...
56m Mar 21, 2017
56m
Encore: The Importance of Clinical Trial Participation
Cancer clinical trials provide patients with access to new therapies. When a patient participates in a clinical trial they are helping to move cancer treatment forward and provide hope for the future of cancer care. However, less than 1/3 of all cancer clinical trials meet their recruitment goals, and only 2-3% of adults participate in a clinical trial. On this episode of Frankly Speaking About...
56m Mar 21, 2017
56m
Encore: The Importance of Clinical Trial Participation
Cancer clinical trials provide patients with access to new therapies. When a patient participates in a clinical trial they are helping to move cancer treatment forward and provide hope for the future of cancer care.
56m Mar 21, 2017
56m
Encore: What you need to know about colorectal cancer
This year, an estimated 136,830 people in the United States will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer, and on average, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 20. In February 2000, President Bill Clinton officially declared March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Since then it has become a rallying point for all impacted by this diagnosis to join together to ...
56m Mar 14, 2017
56m
Encore: What you need to know about colorectal cancer
This year, an estimated 136,830 people in the United States will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer, and on average, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 20. In February 2000, President Bill Clinton officially declared March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Since then it has become a rallying point for all impacted by this diagnosis to join together to ...
56m Mar 14, 2017
56m
Encore: What you need to know about colorectal cancer
This year, an estimated 136,830 people in the United States will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer, and on average, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 20.
56m Mar 14, 2017
56m
An Inside Look at the Pharmacist's Role in Cancer Care
Over the years on Frankly Speaking About Cancer, we’ve interviewed countless physicians, social workers, nurses, oncologists, surgeons, mental health professionals and scientists—to name a few. But, there is one person you encounter during the cancer experience who plays a vital role who we have not yet heard from. That’s the oncology pharmacist. On this episode of Frankly Speaking About Cancer...
56m Mar 07, 2017
56m
An Inside Look at the Pharmacist's Role in Cancer Care
Over the years on Frankly Speaking About Cancer, we’ve interviewed countless physicians, social workers, nurses, oncologists, surgeons, mental health professionals and scientists—to name a few. But, there is one person you encounter during the cancer experience who plays a vital role who we have not yet heard from. That’s the oncology pharmacist. On this episode of Frankly Speaking About Cancer...
56m Mar 07, 2017
56m
An Inside Look at the Pharmacist's Role in Cancer Care
Over the years on Frankly Speaking About Cancer, we’ve interviewed countless physicians, social workers, nurses, oncologists, surgeons, mental health professionals and scientists—to name a few.
56m Mar 07, 2017
56m
An Inside Look at the Pharmacist's Role in Cancer Care
Over the years on Frankly Speaking About Cancer, we’ve interviewed countless physicians, social workers, nurses, oncologists, surgeons, mental health professionals and scientists—to name a few.
56m Mar 07, 2017
56m
Encore: Cancer Survivor's Guilt
Survivor’s guilt is accepted as a common reaction to surviving tragic and traumatic events like war, accidents and disasters. But what we are starting to learn is that survivor's guilt is also common in people with cancer during and after treatment and lung cancer patients in particular. Our guests are cancer survivor Michael Levin, Tara Perloff of the Lung Cancer Alliance and Dr. Megan Shen of...
54m Feb 21, 2017
54m
Encore: Cancer Survivor's Guilt
Survivor’s guilt is accepted as a common reaction to surviving tragic and traumatic events like war, accidents and disasters. But what we are starting to learn is that survivor's guilt is also common in people with cancer during and after treatment and lung cancer patients in particular. Our guests are cancer survivor Michael Levin, Tara Perloff of the Lung Cancer Alliance and Dr. Megan Shen of...
54m Feb 21, 2017
54m
Encore: Cancer Survivor's Guilt
Survivor’s guilt is accepted as a common reaction to surviving tragic and traumatic events like war, accidents and disasters.
54m Feb 20, 2017
54m
A Chef with No Stomach- A conversation with Hans Rueffert
With his career on the rise, chef Hans Rueffert was a contestant on the 2005 Next Food Network Star, reaching the final three. Just 2 weeks after taping the finale for the show, the culinary sensation was diagnosed with stage-three stomach cancer and given a 2% chance of survival. His cancer journey has included eleven surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, a series of brain infections, the remova...
57m Feb 07, 2017
57m
A Chef with No Stomach- A conversation with Hans Rueffert
With his career on the rise, chef Hans Rueffert was a contestant on the 2005 Next Food Network Star, reaching the final three. Just 2 weeks after taping the finale for the show, the culinary sensation was diagnosed with stage-three stomach cancer and given a 2% chance of survival. His cancer journey has included eleven surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, a series of brain infections, the remova...
57m Feb 07, 2017
57m
A Chef with No Stomach- A conversation with Hans Rueffert
With his career on the rise, chef Hans Rueffert was a contestant on the 2005 Next Food Network Star, reaching the final three.
57m Feb 07, 2017
57m
A Chef with No Stomach- A conversation with Hans Rueffert
With his career on the rise, chef Hans Rueffert was a contestant on the 2005 Next Food Network Star, reaching the final three.
57m Feb 07, 2017
57m
Focusing the Lens on Rare Cancers
There are several cancer types that we hear about quite often, whether it’s on the news, through daily conversation or because of a devoted awareness month. But, there are many other cancer types affecting people all over the world that many of us have never even heard of. A lack of awareness is just one of the problems facing people who are living with a rare type of cancer. On this episode of...
1hr 1m Jan 31, 2017
1hr 1m
Focusing the Lens on Rare Cancers
There are several cancer types that we hear about quite often, whether it’s on the news, through daily conversation or because of a devoted awareness month. But, there are many other cancer types affecting people all over the world that many of us have never even heard of. A lack of awareness is just one of the problems facing people who are living with a rare type of cancer. On this episode of...
1hr 1m Jan 31, 2017
1hr 1m
Focusing the Lens on Rare Cancers
There are several cancer types that we hear about quite often, whether it’s on the news, through daily conversation or because of a devoted awareness month. But, there are many other cancer types affecting people all over the world that many of us have never even heard of.
1hr 1m Jan 31, 2017
1hr 1m
Frankly Speaking About Cancer with the Cancer Support Community
1hr 1m Jan 31, 2017
1hr 1m
Understanding the Global Impact of Cancer, One Image at a Time
Cancer does not discriminate. It impacts all of us, in every corner of the world. In fact, more than 14 million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year with more than 8.2 million cancer-related deaths—more than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria combined. About 70% of cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Because of this, there is a significant need to raise awareness of the globa...
56m Jan 24, 2017
56m
Understanding the Global Impact of Cancer, One Image at a Time
Cancer does not discriminate. It impacts all of us, in every corner of the world. In fact, more than 14 million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year with more than 8.2 million cancer-related deaths—more than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria combined. About 70% of cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Because of this, there is a significant need to raise awareness of the globa...
56m Jan 24, 2017
56m
Understanding the Global Impact of Cancer, One Image at a Time
Cancer does not discriminate. It impacts all of us, in every corner of the world. In fact, more than 14 million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year with more than 8.2 million cancer-related deaths—more than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria combined.
56m Jan 24, 2017
56m
Understanding the Global Impact of Cancer, One Image at a Time
Cancer does not discriminate. It impacts all of us, in every corner of the world. In fact, more than 14 million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year with more than 8.2 million cancer-related deaths—more than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria combined.
44m Jan 24, 2017
44m
A Guide to Navigating the 2017 Open Enrollment Period When You Have Cancer
The 2017 open enrollment period for health insurance through your state’s Health Insurance Marketplace began on Tuesday, November 1 and will be coming to a close in just 2 weeks. For anyone who is at risk for cancer, living with cancer or is a cancer survivor, there are many health care needs that must be considered when looking for a new or different health insurance plan. On this episode of F...
1hr 2m Jan 17, 2017
1hr 2m