FEATURES Maintaining Your Balance A cancer diagnosis no doubt throws life out of whack, but it’s important that the patient—with the help of his or her caregivers—not allow the disease to take over complete control. Adjustments will have to be made for sure, but not at the expense of destroying the ability to enjoy life. [...]
FEATURES Don’t Be Intimidated Aside from affecting your health, a cancer diagnosis has the potential to upset every aspect of your life—work, finances, friends, faith, etc. On the surface, it certainly sounds intimidating. But like millions of others, you can get through it. 10 Ways to Get Your Mind Off Cancer Have you ever had [...]
FEATURES Asking for and Receiving Help Many cancer survivors wish to remain independent and battle the disease privately, and that’s great, but don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. Because at some point, you probably will. 25 Ways Someone Can Help You When people learn of your diagnosis, many will ask [...]
Features: A Triple Threat: Fighting Cancer with Mind, Body & Support Taking a look at three major components—biological, psychological and sociological—that will help cancer patients achieve the best possible outcome. 25 Ways Someone Can Help You When people ask what they can do to help, consult this checklist for some quick, easy and helpful tasks. [...]
FEATURES What Cancer Can’t Do For all the fear, confusion and frustration cancer can bring to our lives, there are still many things cancer can’t do to us—unless we let it. 10 Myths About Cancer Cancer can take on this larger-than-life persona, creating plenty of untruths to go with it. We’re Here to Help You [...]
Dear Cancer, You want a fight? You picked the right guy, because I’ll throw hands with you all day long. Anyone who has watched ESPN in the last decade has likely seen Stuart Scott, the ultra-popular on-air personality known for his quick wit and hip catchphrases. He was the perfect choice to be one of [...]
FEATURES Maintaining Your Balance A cancer diagnosis no doubt throws life out of whack, but it’s important that the patient—with the help of his or her caregivers—not allow the disease to take over complete control. Adjustments will have to be made for sure, but not at the expense of destroying the ability to enjoy life. [...]
FEATURES Don’t Be Intimidated Aside from affecting your health, a cancer diagnosis has the potential to upset every aspect of your life—work, finances, friends, faith, etc. On the surface, it certainly sounds intimidating. But like millions of others, you can get through it. 10 Ways to Get Your Mind Off Cancer Have you ever had [...]
FEATURES Asking for and Receiving Help Many cancer survivors wish to remain independent and battle the disease privately, and that’s great, but don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. Because at some point, you probably will. 25 Ways Someone Can Help You When people learn of your diagnosis, many will ask [...]
“What can I do to help?” That’s a question you’ll hear often when you share the news of a cancer diagnosis. But it’s surprisingly hard to answer when your mind is whirling with shock, anxiety and complex medical data. Right after your diagnosis, all the concern and questions don’t make you feel better—they make you [...]
To say that cancer—and medicine overall—is big business is a gross understatement. The National Institutes of Health estimates the United States will spend around $130 billion on cancer treatments alone this year—a number that is expected to climb to as high as $207 billion by 2020. And that’s just for treatment. That doesn’t account for [...]
“I think metastatic cancer is a messy, lively, profoundly conflicted place to be,” says Val Profitt, a licensed clinical psychologist. For patients whose cancer has spread, anxiety, fear, defiance, sadness, regret, longing, acceptance … and moments of peace, tumble around in their hearts and minds, realigning themselves over and over. Add to that physical changes [...]
No one ever wakes up and wishes he or she had cancer, but for the people forced to deal with it, it’s important to look around and find some things to be grateful for. Cancer certainly presents physical and emotional challenges and difficulties, but if you look hard enough, you may just find some gifts [...]
We can’t run or hide. Cancer is everywhere. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been affected by this disease. As president and CEO of Cornucopia Cancer Support Center, and a member of Touched by Cancer’s editorial advisory board, cancer is what I do. And on a personal level, my sister is a cancer survivor, and [...]
A common saying regarding prostate cancer is that patients will “die with prostate cancer, but not from it.” This is largely true for the majority of the approximately 200,000 new cases diagnosed yearly in the United States, but the prognosis is quite different among patients with advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. Of these cases, a [...]
Rather than writing another straightforward article that deals with complementary therapy this month, I thought it would be constructive to look at it from the practical side—by creating a fictional patient. Hopefully by looking at her and seeing how she integrated complementary therapies into her conventional care, it will give you some ideas as to [...]
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