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The latest news on cancer treatment, cancer research, oncology advances, and cancer clinical trials.

OncoLink Cancer Resources Gene alterations associated with response to anthracycline therapy for breast cancer [more]

OncoLink Cancer Resources Moderate chronic kidney disease may raise risk of cancer in older men [more]

OncoLink Cancer Resources Concurrent chemoradiation lengthens lung cancer survival [more]

OncoLink Cancer Resources Acupuncture relieves radiation-induced xerostomia [more]

OncoLink Cancer Resources Diffusion-weighted MRI identifies pelvic lymph node metastases [more]

OncoLink Cancer Resources Gene test predicts survival with mesothelioma [more]

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Everything Changes: The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s
OncoLink Book Review from Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN

Ask The Experts
This is your chance to "Ask the Experts" everything you've always wanted to know about types of cancer, treatments and side effects.

OncoLink Proton Education Modules
The purpose of these education modules is to provide practitioners with the basic information needed to understand the physics of proton therapy and how these properties affect simulation, treatment planning, daily setup, and quality and assurance when using protons as compared to photons.

Greetings from CancerLand: This is a test...
In the latest piece from Oncolink's Poet-in-Residence, Alysa Cummings argues that there are some tests you just can't study for.

Hürthle Cell Carcinoma
There are 4 main types of thyroid cancer, papillary (accounts for 75% of cases), follicular (15%), medullary (5%) and anapalstic (rare). Hürthle cell carcinoma is classified by the World Health Organization as a variant of follicular thyroid cancer, but others believe it is a distinctly separate disease.

Legal Words of Wisdom: COBRA
COBRA gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances.

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Oncolife

OncoLink has created an individualized plan of care based on the Institute of Medicine recommendations for cancer survivors. This free and easy to use program provides cancer survivors with information regarding the health risks they face as a result of cancer therapies. It encourages them to review the plan with their healthcare team to further assess their risk and become active participants in their follow up care.

Develop your survivorship care plan today!

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31 Days, an OncoLink poetry project from Alysa Cummings, OncoLink's poet-in-residence honoring her Mother. This poetry project is timed to coincide with Mother’s Day and includes thirty-one poems by cancer survivors celebrating the breast cancer experience, thirty-one digital photos and thirty-one healing quotations. Please feel free to print them as inspiration for your favorite Mom!


See today's poem, For Those Who Wait, by Shannon Olin Kresge.

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Smoking Cessation Aids
This article will review the available treatments, both pharmacologic (drug) and non-pharmacologic, to aid in successful smoking cessation.

Smoking Cessation: Where do I Start?
The US Surgeon General stated that quitting smoking is the single most important step that smokers can take to enhance the length and quality of their lives.

Did You Know...The Facts About Smoking and the Worldwide Crisis it has Caused?
Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer.

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From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition

This is award winning video is presented courtesy of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Click here for more information about the IOM report: From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition.