Depression and Anxiety

It is completely natural to feel depressed, anxious, angry, or confused when you are being treated for cancer. Emotions run high when you have a serious disease that needs serious treatment.

Self-Care and Healthy Conversations During Treatment

As you face your cancer diagnosis and treatment, it may be easy to get caught up in the demands of going to treatments, work, and taking care of your home and family.

Stress Management

Stress management is an essential part of your cancer treatment.

Managing Stress, Building Resilience

You’re not alone if you’re anxious about cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. See why managing stress is an opportunity to build resiliency.

5 Tips To Reduce Stress As a Cancer Patient

April is National Stress Month. While excessive stress is detrimental to everyone, it presents additional challenges for those who are immunocompromised, such as cancer patients. So how can patients make themselves a top priority and reduce stress while battling cancer? Here are five tips to reduce stress as a cancer patient.

Guest Perspectives: Mental Health During and Beyond Cancer

Cancer impacts patients physically and emotionally. Breast cancer survivor and blogger Emilia Yonge supports greater emphasis on the mental health needs of cancer patients and their families.

Hear from the Expert

We talked with patients, caregivers, and specialists around the Texas Oncology network to gather their best advice for patients at diagnosis, during treatment, following treatment, and beyond.

Self-Care Makes a Difference in Preventing and Detecting Prostate Cancer and Gynecologic Cancer

Integrating cancer-specific measures into your self-care routine can help prevent and manage disease. Learn more about self-care practices for prostate and gynecologic cancer.

Community And Support

Cancer patients and their caregivers are surrounded by a community of support, with many resources available to help them through the cancer journey.

Managing Cancer Symptoms

There are important steps you can take to ensure the most effective management of your cancer symptoms.

Cooling Cap Helps Patients Maintain Hair and Self-Esteem

Clinical trial at Texas Oncology helps confirm effectiveness – helping patients like Melissa Ducker, a breast cancer patient at Texas Oncology–Houston Memorial City, mitigate hair loss from chemotherapy.

Healthy Eating During the Holidays When You or a Loved One Have Cancer

As the holiday season approaches, food is often the center of many celebrations, but for those fighting cancer, it can be challenging. However, it is possible for patients to receive their nutritional health needs while also enjoying those beloved holiday dishes. Learn how with just a bit of planning and foresight, patients can still partake in their favorite holiday traditions at the table.

Side Effects of Cancer Treatment

The treatment of a cancer may include the use of chemotherapy, precision cancer medicines, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, or some combination of all of these or other therapeutic options. All of these treatment options are directed at killing or eradicating cancer cells. Unfortunately, cancer treatments may also damage normal, healthy cells that are not affected […]

‘It’s Just That Image You Face Everyday’: Waco Breast Cancer Survivor Describes Battle With Body Image

Battling breast cancer and going through treatments like chemotherapy can take a toll on one’s physical and emotional health as well as affect how patients feel about their body. Waco resident, Heather Field, and patient of Carlos A. Encarnación, M.D., FACP, Texas Oncology-Hamilton and Horizon Circle remembers feeling insecure about her body during her battle with breast cancer. “I would wake up every morning and think I don’t have any hair and think, ‘wow I have cancer,’” said Heather. “It’s just that image you face everyday that you actually do have cancer.” Heather and Dr. Encarnación join KWTX-TV (CBS, Waco) to talk about the importance of breast cancer awareness and need to schedule your regular mammogram appointments.

Body Positivity During Breast Cancer

Like many women, cancer took a toll on Waco resident Heather Fields, patient of Dr. Carlos A. Encarnación, M.D., FACP, Texas Oncology-Hamilton and Horizon Circle. At the age of 42, in late 2019, Heather was diagnosed with breast cancer and embarked on a journey that impacted herself, family, loved ones and how she viewed her body image. With her loss of hair, she felt she lost her identity. Throughout her journey Heather realized that hair does not define you and now advocates for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer to embrace the new skin their in and have grace for their body as they fight this disease.

Sexuality and Cancer

It is perfectly natural for people who have been diagnosed with cancer to be concerned about the effect their illness may have on their interest in intimacy.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex and Prostate Cancer

For most men, maintaining sexual function confronts more than 10,000 Texas men each year who are diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Support Groups

Cancer affects far more than your body; your psychological and emotional health must also be considered. Our focus is on your whole person, as well as the needs of the friends and family who support you.

Patient Support Services

Cancer treatment can impact your quality of life, and your specific treatment may facilitate the need for additional services

Caring Ways Your Organization Can Support an Employee with Cancer

It's hard to know how to support an employee with cancer, especially when not every patient is open to sharing details about their diagnosis with co-workers.

My Best Advice

Texas Oncology physicians, staff, patients, and caregivers share their advice to those going through cancer treatment.

Texas Oncology Foundation Webinar: Caregiver Confessions

We know cancer's impact reaches further than the patient, entire families feel these effects. In this upcoming webinar we are going to take an honest look at the caregiver experience: discuss how to process the emotions, signs of burnout, preventative measures and much more.

COA Patient Advocacy Network

The Community Oncology Alliance Patient Advocacy Network (CPAN) is a national advocacy organization committed to raising awareness of independent, community cancer care centers and how national and local health care policy issues may affect patient care.

Wonders and Worries

Wonders & Worries provides free, professional support for children and teenagers through a parent's serious illness or injury, so that they can reach their full potential.

Texas Oncology Foundation Webinar: Yes IT Matters: Your Sexuality After Cancer Care

This webinar covers the most common sexual health challenges that men and women face when diagnosed with cancer. We will identify the challenges, discuss strategies to use, and learn what professionals to seek for additional support. We welcome partners to join and learn with us.

Texas Oncology Foundation Webinar: Guided Meditation

Dr. Zuniga gives an introduction to guided meditation. Then participants have the opportunity to experience this as we are led through a session of guided meditation!

Texas Oncology Foundation Webinar: Let's Talk About IT | Intimacy After Cancer

Things have changed. Your body is not the same. Emotionally, you are not the same. But now is the time to reclaim YOU and reclaim YOUR sexuality!

Texas Oncology Foundation Webinar: The Impact of Grief | Compassionate Understanding, Allowing & Preparation

Viewers will begin to recognize the personal impact of grief, identify possible manifestations of grief (and why it may be so different), and ways in which grief opens us to change. Speaker Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPH, will also help dispel myths about grief.

Kim Mosier: Finding Strength and Body Positivity After Breast Cancer

“Fighting cancer has taught me how powerful my body really is and introduced me to the strongest group of women I’ve ever met. These women have inspired me for the better, and I want to be a champion in helping others who are navigating cancer,” said Kim Mosier.

Steve Dombek: An Unbreakable Spirit

“Unbreakable is my mantra, motto, or mindset for anyone going through a tough time. It reminds us that you/we/they got this, are strong, can persevere, believe, and are unbreakable.”

Lorinda Wilks: Conquering Cancer One Line at a Time

“There are so many hurdles to overcome with cancer, and you need support for both the physical and mental aspects. Dr. Eshed and the Texas Oncology team are like family. They saved my life and helped me fight to find the strength that I had inside.”

Sean Crowley: Living for What Matters Most

“I had to let it sink in that my life had changed forever. I learned to rely solely on Drs. Brenner and Thatikonda and my care team to get me through this."