Sometime during the 1990s, while I was practicing at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., I was asked to see a diplomat from one of the Middle Eastern countries. He was an ...

Does spirituality make a difference in how a patient adjusts to breast cancer? According to the following studies, the answer is yes. It does depend, however, on whether spirituality was already part ...

"My initial response was shock. You don't want to really believe it. Then I was scared." Those words are from Margaret Price, a breast cancer survivor, about her initial diagnosis. She shared her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The patient — a man in his mid-60s with advanced cancer — had been in severe pain despite being on a high dose ...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among Advanced Cancer Patients Enrolled on Phase I Trials: A Study of Prognosis, Quality of Life, and Preferences for Decision Making The Coping With Cancer ...

Research reveals that most individuals with cancer have religious and spiritual beliefs, or derive comfort from religious and spiritual experiences. But what impact does this have on patients' health?

NORTH FORK, NY — Even when faced with the most daunting of diagnoses, a Peconic woman, determined to chart her own course and shape her own destiny, has transformed her journey into one of inspiration ...

Phase II Trial of Trastuzumab in Combination With Cytotoxic Chemotherapy for Treatment of Metastatic Osteosarcoma With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Overexpression: A Report From the ...

(HealthDay News) — For cancer patients, religion and spirituality (R/S) measures are associated with measures of physical, mental, and social health outcomes, according to three reviews published ...

Spiritual beliefs and a historically-based distrust of clinical research may factor into Black patients' decisions about whether to participate in cancer trials, according to surveys of patients ...