Cancerwise

As a lung cancer oncologist, Eric Singhi, M.D., often tells patients, “We don’t just treat cancer. We treat your cancer.”

So much of the cancer experience is unique to each patient: the stage, the cause, the biomarkers, the treatment, the goals. It’s what Singhi loves about oncology. It’s what drew him into the field.

“Cancer is such a universal experience,” he says. “We all know someone who has or has had cancer,” he says...

The term “sandwich generation” describes people who are raising their children while also caring for their aging parents. 

Juggling the responsibilities that each of these entails — plus a career, a household and a social life — is challenging even when cancer isn’t involved. So, what do you do when it is? 

Senior social work counselors Tatiana Fincham and Mary Dev weighed in on this topic during&nbsp...