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Mitchison and his team received a $999,932 grant from NIH in September to investigate which cancer drugs will be successful early in their development...
...were Mr. Domesticated. But even by Hollywood standards, the unraveling of his fifth marriage is a barn burner. The actor, 73, filed for divorce from the former Victoria Duffy, 42, his wife of 13 years, in December in the midst of his life-or-death battle against metastasized cancer. She countersued in January. Among the milder of her claims was that he was not in his right mind...
Then there's Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former presidential hopeful and Senator from North Carolina. Her Stage 4 cancer is incurable, but she and John Edwards have decided to separate, reportedly at her behest. (See TIME's photo-essay "Married for 50 Years: Love Ever After...
...person involves not just professional help, but support from friends and family. Mucci found that men who were given their diagnosis in the presence of their families were less likely to kill themselves than those who bore the news alone. Having a social support network may not take the cancer away, but it could help ease the anxiety of learning to live with...
...screening may help reduce the psychological trauma of a diagnosis, it is impossible to avoid the blow completely. But there are ways for easing the shock of the news, says Vogelzang. Physicians should be aware of and alerted to any history of depression or mental illness in their cancer patients. And if their patients do need counseling or support, they should be provided these services as part of their overall cancer care. "We think the diagnosis of cancer is a teachable moment, when clinicians need to really be involved in thinking not only, what am I going...