Survivorship News

CHICAGO — Food choices are some of the most important choices a person can make for their health, Michelle McMacken, MD, FACP, DipABLM, said during a presentation at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

In this episode, Amy Comander, MD, Beth Frates, MD, and Michelle Tollefson, MD, discuss their journeys in the breast cancer treatment and awareness space and their new personal well-being resource, PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook.

In the long-term surveillance of pediatric cancer survivors, clinicians cannot necessarily be reassured by the appearance of wellness.

With cancer becoming less of a “death sentence” and more of a chronic illness, patients with cancer are increasingly making the transition from active treatment to long-term survivorship.

Bone loss is a natural part of aging — especially due to menopause for women — but certain cancer treatments and prolonged cancer survival can increase the risk for bone loss and the related outcome of fractures.

For 20 years, I have been living in a randomized controlled trial with a sample size of two.

Nearly one-third of older women who survived colorectal, endometrial or ovarian cancer reported lower extremity lymphedema, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Childhood acute leukemia survivors with Down syndrome had increased risk for late mortality not attributable to cardiac- or subsequent malignant neoplasm-associated late effects, according to study results published in Cancer.

Patients undergoing cancer treatment demonstrated a higher likelihood of believing misinformation related to COVID-19 than those without a history of cancer, according to a study published in Patient Education and Counseling.

Insomnia is an all too familiar modern problem and can negatively impact various aspects of health.