News & Breakthroughs at Siteman
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Patient Resource News & Stories
Educational, Patient Resource
Finding comfort again: gentle vaginal dryness moisturizers after cancer
If you’re facing vaginal dryness, painful sex or low libido after cancer treatment, please know this: you’re not alone and there is help. Many women treated with chemotherapy, radiation, or hormone therapy (like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors) experience changes that make intimacy uncomfortable and painful, and understandably lower interest in sex, too. There are many […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: How sleep and exercise can help kids’ health and grades
Now that kids are back in school, families are settling into their new routines after a long summer break. It can certainly be a busy time for everyone. But this transition can also be a great opportunity to help our kids — and our households — build healthy behaviors that can carry through the year, […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: 15 small steps with big rewards
Surveys show that most of us place a high priority on our health and wellness. That’s probably not surprising to hear. But as common a goal as improving health is, it can sometimes feel like a mystery how we can actually work toward it, with busy days filled with work, family and other important activities. […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: Should you sip or skip your favorite summer drink?
For something so simple, there can be something surprisingly enjoyable about a cold drink on a hot day. It can quench our thirst, cool us down and just taste great. And during these warm months when we need to drink more than usual to stay hydrated, it’s important to choose drinks that we like, but […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: Staying cool and sun-safe this summer
Food sizzling on the grill is one of the classic sounds of summer — right up there with kids splashing in sprinklers and the crack of a bat at the ballpark. That sizzling can also be a good stand-in for how we might feel outside on a sweltering day. With a little planning, though, we […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: Make wellness part of spring cleaning
There’s always the same 24 hours in a day, but somehow when we hit spring, it can seem like we get some extra time. With more daylight and warmer weather, the days can just feel like they’re expanding. And with that shift can come a boost in our energy and motivation to tackle lingering projects […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: Move more, live better
It’s likely no surprise to read that physical activity is good for us. In fact, it may be hard to go a full day without seeing something positive about exercise and physical activity on the news or social media. What can sometimes get lost in all that, though, is how wide-ranging the benefits of physical […]
In the Media, Patient Resource
New cancer care clinic opens in Center for Advanced Medicine
The Cancer Care Clinic at Siteman Cancer Center has moved to a larger, more easily accessible area within the Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) on the Washington University Medical Campus. The clinic provides cancer treatments, manages side effects of cancer therapy, and provides other services for cancer patients, including evaluations, infusions and injections, and care related […]
In the Media, Patient Resource, Research
Q&A: Jennifer De Los Santos, MD, highlights head and neck cancer
April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to highlight a set of cancers that 60,000 Americans will be diagnosed with in 2025, according to the American Cancer Society. These cancers most commonly include those of the tongue; tonsils and throat behind the mouth; and gums, floor of the mouth and other parts […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: Spilling the beans on coffee and health
For the morning coffee drinkers out there, a recent study found there may be one more reason to enjoy that first cup of the day. In a study of over 40,000 people in a national health survey, researchers found that morning coffee drinkers had a lower risk of dying prematurely than non-coffee drinkers. And the […]