Radiation therapy plays a critical role in treating head and neck cancers, but it can also lead to lasting late effects that impact quality of life long after treatment ends. One of the most common of these is Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome (RFS) — a chronic condition caused by radiation-induced damage to soft tissues, nerves, and lymphatic structures.
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Why Am I Angry? And What Can I Do About It?
Cancer survivors are certainly allowed to be angry. No one deserves to have cancer. It’s an insidious, odious disease. No doubt about it. This article explores the subject of anger and cancer survivorship from a very different perspective. Could our anger be masking something else?
Mind jumble: Understanding chemo brain
Practical Ways to Build Resilience
Resilience is especially important when you’re living with the long-term impact of cancer, managing late effects, or supporting a loved one through it. It’s not about being tough all the time, but about learning how to adapt, recover, and stay grounded when life gets difficult.
Cancer fatigue: strategies to help you cope
Cancer-related fatigue plagues many long-term survivors. This article provides practical strategies to help manage persistent fatigue. For Hodgkin lymphoma survivors, addressing fatigue is often central to improving quality of life, as it is a common long-term effect of treatment and chronic stress on the body.
Annual screening may reduce breast cancer deaths by half among childhood cancer survivors
Initiating annual breast cancer screening at a younger age may prevent more than half of all breast cancer-related deaths among childhood cancer survivors treated with chest radiation, according to results of a comparative modeling study presented at this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting.
After Treatment – Living as a Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma Cancer Survivor
The good news is that for most patients, the long-term prognosis for childhood Hodgkin lymphoma is excellent. For patients who have been through months or even years of difficult chemotherapy and radiation therapy, it is easy to see the final treatment—the declaration of “cancer free” or even “cured”—as the final destination of a long journey. Survivorship, however, is in fact its own journey, and one that can also be extremely challenging, both physically and emotionally.
Minimally Invasive Valve Repair Gives Patient Her Life Back
Child survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma have increased risk of second cancer
Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma are at an increased risk of developing an entirely new cancer later in life, according to new research published in Cancer—the American Cancer Society’s international peer-reviewed scientific journal—and conducted at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Increased Risk for CVD in Some Cancer Survivors
Colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease share common risk factors, such as obesity, lack of physical activity, and smoking. Therefore, there is a need to explore the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease in this population.