Assembled from our reviewed articles
Education
Each guide gathers our articles on one topic into a single, ordered read. Read it on this site, or download a free PDF to print or save. The guides add no new medical information. They organize our existing articles around a moment, such as being just diagnosed, eating during treatment, or caregiving.
Guides
Read online, or download the PDF to keep or print.
Just Diagnosed: A Starting-Point Guide
A calm, ordered starting point for the first weeks after a cancer diagnosis — reading your pathology report, getting a second opinion, and building your care team.
Understanding Cancer Treatment: A Starting Guide
How the major cancer treatments work — chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy — and how to think through a treatment plan and clinical trials.
Cancer Screening: What to Get, and When
A plain-language walkthrough of cancer screening — what it can and can't do, the tests for breast, cervical, colorectal, and lung cancer, and what a false-positive result actually means.
Cancer Prevention & Risk: What the Evidence Says
What actually raises or lowers cancer risk — alcohol, weight, sun exposure, HPV vaccination — separated from the claims that don't hold up.
Eating Through Treatment: A Practical Guide
Gentle, practical guidance for eating during cancer treatment — nausea, mouth sores, taste changes, food safety, and keeping enough calories and protein in you.
Caregiving Through Cancer: A Guide for Family and Friends
Practical guidance for people caring for someone with cancer — daily tasks, communicating with the care team, burnout, and taking care of yourself too.
Printable patient handouts
Short one-topic fact sheets to print and hand out, in English and many other languages. Free for hospitals, clinics and anyone else to print and share unchanged.
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The same five areas we organize the whole site around.
Prevention & Risk
What raises or lowers cancer risk, and what the evidence actually supports.
Symptoms & Diagnosis
What symptoms mean, and what happens between a symptom and a diagnosis.
Living With Cancer
Side effects, cost, caregiving, nutrition, and survivorship.