The thing about cancer is, when you’re first diagnosed, it’s something that is completely foreign to you,” says Bill Donahue, prostate cancer survivor and member of Touched by Cancer’s focus group. “Even if someone close to you went through it, when it happens to you, you are just stunned. And because you have no experience [...]
25 Ways Someone Can Help You When people find out you or a loved one is about to begin or is already going through a cancer journey, they will often—instinctively—ask if there is anything they can do to help. Usually, having to come up with an off-the-cuff answer to this question—for someone who could fall [...]
Cancer patients being assigned individual navigators (sometimes called patient advocates) is a fairly new phenomenon, with the birth of the first “official” navigator program coming in 1990. Since then the value of such programs has been recognized by the industry, but even today not all treatment facilities offer this invaluable service to patients. The patient [...]
Local facilities fight cancer through treatment, research and education When 2010 comes to a close and the final numbers are tabulated, the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics projects that there will have been 49,586 new cases of cancer diagnosed in the state, an increase of more than 17 percent from 2009. Of [...]
Duke Doctor Beats the Odds and Survives to Help Others Oncologist Neil Spector trained at top schools, cared for patients at leading medical centers and led a pharmaceutical industry team that developed breakthrough therapies for the treatment of breast cancer. Still, he believes in his heart and in his soul that his greatest life lessons [...]
Touched by Cancer magazine calls upon the knowledge of local medical experts, mental health professionals, the legal community, faith-based counselors and other members of the cancer community to help make it a valuable source of information for those dealing with or affected by cancer in the Triangle. These are the people who help shape the [...]
The current issue of Touched by Cancer is available for free in cancer-related treatment facilities, non-profit offices, pharmacies and selected sponsors’ locations. For a partial list of distribution points, click here. Look for our regular features—From the Doctor, From the Navigator, TBC’s 25, professional and patient profiles, calendar of events, resources and more! Be [...]
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