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Navigating Treatment

The world of advanced cancer treatment can be complex and confusing. Get oriented with tips on what to ask your doctor, second opinions, how to enroll in a clinical trial, and more.

  • June 12, 2021  

    Navigating Pancreatic Cancer: Apps at Your Fingertips Bookmark

    Lola Rahib, PhD

    Article from Let’s Win! Pancreatic Cancer: Learn how patients and caregivers can utilize cancer apps to find resources, track symptoms, contribute to research, and more.

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  • June 12, 2021  

    Drafting Your Health Care Team Bookmark

    Lola Rahib, PhD

    Article from Let’s Win! Pancreatic Cancer: Patients need different types of healthcare professionals when diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A multidisciplinary team of experts are care professionals that work together and have different roles in helping patients with pancreatic cancer.

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  • February 20, 2021  

    Patient education: Pancreatic cancer (Beyond the Basics) Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    UpToDate provides an authoritative overview of pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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  • January 26, 2021  

    Behind the Scenes at Cancer Commons: Working with Patients

    With: Emma Shtivelman, PhD

    Cancer Commons helps advanced cancer patients identify and access their best-possible treatments. Here, our Curious Dr. George asks Chief Scientist Emma Shtivelman, PhD, for an inside look at how she helps the people who turn to us for guidance. Curious Dr. George: As Chief Scientist at Cancer Commons for many years, you have helped thousands of patients with advanced cancer to better understand their… Read more »

  • October 10, 2020  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Acute Myeloid Leukemia Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    PDF from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has issued a 2020 edition of its Guidelines for Patients about acute myeloid leukemia.

    Go to full document published by the NCCN.

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  • October 8, 2020  

    Association of Coffee Intake With Survival in Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    Research paper from JAMA Oncology curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

    This study linked coffee consumption with longer survival and lower death rates in advanced colorectal cancer.

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  • October 8, 2020  

    Pediatric Cancer: The “Day One Talk” Bookmark

    Marty Tenenbaum, PhD

    Article from the Journal of Clinical Oncology, curated by Cancer Commons founder Marty Tenenbaum, PhD.

    This piece discusses a “method of delivering bad news to parents of children with cancer in hopes that our approach may be helpful to others and may spur discussion.”

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  • October 8, 2020  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    PDF from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has issued a 2020 edition of its Guidelines for Patients about Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.

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  • October 8, 2020  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Pediatric ALL Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    PDF from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has issued a 2020 edition of its Guidelines for Patients about Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

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  • October 8, 2020  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Kidney Cancer Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    PDF from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has issued a 2020 edition of its Guidelines for Patients about Kidney Cancer.

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