Caps can’t accommodate earphones and cooling machines are noisy, so listening to music or watching TV is difficult. Arm yourself instead with abundant reading material — or plan to snooze.

When Amanda Butler was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32, the prospect of chemotherapy was daunting. “That was the last thing I wanted to do. I was like I don’t want to lose my hair ...

Now he's making hats for cancer patients who've lost their hair. "About a year ago, I initially posted something about making chemo hats and friends shared it," the 42 year-old told CNN.

Irene Olson never had cancer, but she knows how grueling chemotherapy can be. Her late husband, Kenneth, died in 1987 after two years of the drug treatments. [email protected] October 26, 2002 at ...