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Elaine Schattner

writer, health care advocate, physician

Elaine Schattner

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Actually, Many New Cancer Drugs May Be Helpful And Worth Trying

Actually, Many New Cancer Drugs May Be Helpful And Worth Trying

Perhaps the literature fails to capture the clinical value of oncology drugs. This could happen for several reasons.

Bayer’s Stivarga Shows Slim Progress Against Liver Cancer

Bayer’s Stivarga Shows Slim Progress Against Liver Cancer

My enthusiasm for this new drug, Stivarga, is tempered by the low response rate and toxicity.

Heart Health After Cancer: A Growing Concern

Heart Health After Cancer: A Growing Concern

It’s the kind of problem a person who’s had cancer, or a doctor who’s prescribed generally helpful treatment, may not want to think about.

On The Death Of David Carr, And Cancer Survivorship

On The Death Of David Carr, And Cancer Survivorship

Carr’s story highlights the need for improved survivorship care. As his recent autopsy disclosed, he died with an aggressive form of lung cancer and heart disease.

Collateral Damage: How A Cancer Diagnosis Hurts Employment And Finances

Collateral Damage: How A Cancer Diagnosis Hurts Employment And Finances

Employment and money concerns haunt many people with all kinds of cancer, nation-wide, during and after treatment.

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Varies Widely: Study Raises Questions About Early Treatment Choices

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Varies Widely: Study Raises Questions About Early Treatment Choices

Chemotherapy treatments for early-stage breast cancer vary widely in their possible side effects. But few newly-diagnosed patients press their oncologists about those differences.

Finding Kindness and Introspection in ‘Half Empty,’ a Book of Essays by David Rakoff

Finding Kindness and Introspection in ‘Half Empty,’ a Book of Essays by David Rakoff

The words we use matter enormously, not just in clinical outcomes, but in how people with cancer feel about the decisions they’ve made, years later.

How Much Do You Want Your Doctors To Say About Risks of Treatment?

How Much Do You Want Your Doctors To Say About Risks of Treatment?

This kind of paternalism, when a doctor assesses the risks and benefits, and spares the patient’s “knowing” seems anachronistic. But it may, still, be what many people are looking for when and if they get a serious illness.

Chemo: A Treatment That Could Wind Up Giving You (Another) Cancer

Chemo: A Treatment That Could Wind Up Giving You (Another) Cancer

Few cancer patients take notes on chemo dose options and potential long-term side effects.

Lifting the Fog on Chemobrain

Lifting the Fog on Chemobrain

New research helps clarify what chemobrain is and why it happens.