Walking With Hope
Daily walks help optimize a course of treatment. In this patient handout, you’ll find answers to common questions and tips for staying motivated.
Cancer Patient Resource Center
Late Effects in Adult Cancer Survivors
After cancer, understanding late effects enables patients to take steps that minimize their negative impact on life whenever possible.
The Power & Limits of Visualization
Visualization is a supportive therapy that many patients find helpful. This overview explains how it works, its potential benefits, and its limits.
A Healthy Approach to Online Tests
This handout discusses potential benefits and risks of learning your test results online. You’ll find tips for managing your expectations and minimizing stress.
Answering How Are You?
During and after cancer treatment, a common greeting—How are you? —may stir unpleasant emotions or cause confusion about how to answer. This handout offers insights and tips on responding in ways that help you. The key message is this: In medical settings, answering candidly is essential to optimizing your care.
Coping With Treatment Delays
You may experience treatment delays, especially if your course is prolonged. That’s normal. This handout reviews common questions and concerns to help you respond in helpful, hopeful ways.
Managing Communications With Family & Friends
One of the many decisions you face after a cancer diagnosis is how to communicate health updates to your family and friends. These days, you have lots of options. It helps to know the pros and cons of each. Whether you share your diagnosis with only one person by phone, the whole world on social media, or anything in-between, here are insights and tips to help you benefit from the best method for you, for now.
The Power & Limits of Your Prognosis
One tool in cancer care is the prognosis (plural = prognoses). This handout discusses how to use your prognosis to help you make wise decisions and look forward with hope.
The Healing Power of a New Normal for Now
During and after cancer treatment, life may feel “not normal.” This handout explains how creating a new normal for now may help you deal with unwanted changes in healthy and hopeful ways.
Understanding Promising Unproven Cancer Therapies
This handout reviews a few key facts about promising-but-unproven therapies. Knowing what those therapies offer—and don’t offer—enables you to determine whether to consider them as options for you. Then you can make the best decision for you.
Maximizing Resilience
Emotional resilience helps you through treatment and recovery. This handout is designed to help us work together to optimize your resilience.
Counseling With an Oncology Social Worker
How might an oncology social worker be of assistance to you?
Your Genetic Inheritance
To provide the best care, we need to know if your cancer is hereditary. This handout will help you understand what’s involved in genetic testing.