Frankly Speaking About Cancer with the Cancer Support Community

This episode focuses on making treatment decisions when you or your loved one has been diagnosed with an advanced cancer.

Over the last decade, the number of treatment options for patients with advanced cancers has greatly expanded.

Grief can be complicated and confusing. Coping with the feelings that follow a loss can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be something from which we run away. In this episode, we sit down with Susan Ash Lee, Vice President, Clinical Services at CSC.

This episode is part of our special series “Young and Diagnosed” which focuses on the unique challenges and experiences of young adults facing a cancer diagnosis.

“Cancer always catches people by surprise and will always be someone else’s problem...we are all terrified that one day, the someone else will be us.

In this episode, we take a close look at advanced non-melanoma skin cancer.

Thanks to advances in research and several new treatments, people diagnosed with multiple myeloma are living better and longer than ever before. The disease is treatable and can be managed like any other chronic condition.

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors and other healthcare providers were being tested by a number of stressors that impacted their emotional well-being and, by extension, patient care.

Our special series “Young and Diagnosed” focuses on the unique challenges and experiences of young adults facing a cancer diagnosis. In this episode, we meet Suleika Jaouad and Jonathan Sommers.