Patient and Caregiver

Too few patients receive this vital support — here’s why you should ask for it. When most people hear the words “palliative care,” they think it means giving up. In truth, palliative care is not about dying — it is about living as well as possible, from the very first day of diagnosis. Just as…

No one warns you that cancer treatment can reach into the most private parts of your life. The conversations in clinic focus—appropriately—on survival: medications, scans, side effects, timelines. But afterward, when the room quiets and you’re alone with your thoughts, other questions surface. Will I still feel like myself? Will my partner still want me?…