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. [...]
COVER STORY Clinical trials are an incredibly valuable tool for researchers and physicians as they continue to make headway in the battle against cancer. For patients, these trials are much more than desperate actions to try when nothing else is working. We’ll take a look at the stigma surrounding clinical trials and let you know [...]
COVER STORY For the vast majority of people, receiving a cancer diagnosis is a trying and difficult moment in their lives, where even the strongest person will need to find previously unknown resiliency. No matter how independent you are, this is something you’d rather not do alone. Finding Support will discuss the importance of having [...]
COVER STORY Clinical trials are an incredibly valuable tool for researchers and physicians as they continue to make headway in the battle against cancer. For patients, these trials are much more than desperate actions to try when nothing else is working. We’ll take a look at the stigma surrounding clinical trials and let you know [...]
COVER STORY After a cancer diagnosis, even the most grounded, logical people can’t help but wonder why they got this horrible disease. Cancer: Why Me? will examine some of the emotional baggage that comes along with this illness and explore ways that you can make peace with it and be positive as you continue forward [...]
COVER STORY After a cancer diagnosis, even the most grounded, logical people can’t help but wonder why they got this horrible disease. Cancer: Why Me? will examine some of the emotional baggage that comes along with this illness and explore ways that you can make peace with it and be positive as you continue forward [...]
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 [...]
About halfway through the first Touched by Cancer roundtable, one of the participants was relating an incident but suddenly became stymied. She got stuck searching for a certain word. It wasn’t a difficult or obscure word, and it was on the very tip of her tongue—but it somehow kept eluding her. In computer terms, she [...]
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