The Power of the Creative Arts
A recent analysis of past studies highlights the health benefits of music, dance, and art therapy, which are now being used to ease cancer-related anxiety and pain.
Browsing Tag
Cancer
66 posts
Waiting for a Miracle
A new study finds that religious people with community support pursue more aggressive end-of-life treatment to delay death despite seeing no improvement in quality of life.
The Hardest Conversation, Part 2
Late-stage cancer patients often don’t understand that chemotherapy isn’t a cure but a palliative, as Kevin Charles Redmon…
The Hardest Conversation: Talking About Death
A troubling number of terminally ill cancer patients don’t understand that chemotherapy won’t cure them. How can oncologists talk so that patients will listen?
Have You Heard the One About the Guy with Prostate Cancer?
Should therapists be turning to football and jokes to reach a wider audience of men in need?
Cancer Wars: An Outcast Researcher’s New Theory
The scientific community disowned Professor Peter Duesberg for denying that HIV causes AIDS. But is there something to his new theory on cancer?
Can the Walnut Help Cure Prostate Cancer?
A cup of walnuts holds 117 percent of the fat you need in a day. This fact prompted…
Fending Off Skin Cancer With SPF Starbucks
Not quite a prescription for a Red Bull and a bike ride, but a new study finds that…
Is Radiation Actually Good For Some of Us?
By age 10, most people are exposed to enough radiation to be at risk, but the science is so complicated that exposure could even have benefits.