Touched by Cancer is a bimonthly magazine dedicated to providing a non-medical resource guide for everyone affected by cancer in the Triangle and surrounding area of North Carolina. It is a practical guide to living with cancer for patients, their family members, friends and caregivers. Every issue profiles local cancer survivors, medical professionals and treatment facilities and contains useful tips and information to allow patients to focus on their health. Feel free to contact Touched by Cancer's associate publisher, Mike Macdonald at mmacdonald@tbcmag.com with any questions you may have about our publication.
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Whether in combat during Desert Storm or running a successful consulting business, Joseph Barto III is a man used to being in charge—a leader both by nature and by training. He is greatly respected and admired among those who know him, both personally and professionally. During his long military career, Joe spent much of his [...]
We’re talking with Frank McCann—the only director the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic has known in its 19-year history—but there’s another presence in the room, and it is almost palpable. It’s Jim Valvano himself, the former N.C. State men’s basketball coach, famous locally (and among sports enthusiasts) for leading the Wolfpack to a 1983 national [...]
When you sit down to hear a doctor’s tale—informed there will be stories about how things were in the old days, firsthand accounts of medicine’s progress and insight as to what was involved in developing all the fancy technology that now exists—most would conjure up that image of the small-town gentleman doctor wearing a drape-cut [...]
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