A Spoonful of Laughter Helps the Medicine Go Down
Laugh, chuckle, giggle, and guffaw your way through cancer treatment. By Laurie Wertich Cancer is no laughing matter—but a little laughter goes a long way to uplift, enliven, and relieve stress in cancer patients who are bogged down by the anxiety of their illness. You may not feel like laughing, but it could be just the release you need. “If everybody in the room is laughing, there is not only relief for everyone but I think there is a great spiritual uplift that happens for us. The diagnosis is no different, the prognosis is no different, but suddenly we feel like we can ...
Is Sugar Really as Sweet as It Seems?
By Carolyn Katzin Just how nice is sugar? Sugar is associated with pleasure beginning with our first food—breast milk—which is very sweet, and many of us continue to find comfort in sweet foods. But when you’re challenged by a cancer diagnosis and looking to support your overall health, you want to make choices that are not only comforting but also good for your body. When it comes to sugar, the key is to make educated choices that will provide you with lasting fuel and extra nutritional benefit. Not All Sugars Are Created Equal Sugar is a broad term to describe chemicals that usually ...
Blood and Cancer
Advances in the treatment of blood cancers have led to increasingly high survival rates, and current research continues to offer up exciting progress in the field. By Barbara Boughton Treatment of blood cancers could be considered a success story. Research uncovering some of the underlying causes of these diseases, combined with increasingly more effective drugs, has resulted in significant strides toward better treatment outcomes during the past few decades. Since 1960 the five-year-survival rate for patients with leukemia has more than tripled; and for patients with lymphoma, the survival rate has doubled, according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Some blood cancers—such ...
Heartbreak and Hope
Women share stories of genetic testing. By Erin Zammett Ruddy “It’s like being struck by lightening—totally random, bad luck.” That’s what I was told when I was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a slow-moving form of blood cancer, in 2001. At age 23 it was just the explanation I needed. I am not a fan of regret, of looking back and thinking, if only, so I was relieved that my disease wasn’t necessarily predetermined, like my red hair and green eyes. If I had heard that it was in some way my fault ...
News
Alcohol Linked with Lobular Breast Cancer
Relationship between alcohol and breast cancer varies by type of breast cancer
Rectal Cancer Increasing in People Under 40
Symptoms such as rectal bleeding warrant attention
A Gift Beyond Words
The Dream Foundation offers patients and loved ones dignity and hope during their end-of-life journey. By...
Cancer Myths
Confused about rumors you’ve heard about cancer? Read on.
Early Palliative Care Linked with Longer Lung Cancer Survival
Quality of life and mood also improved
Cancer Tips
Preventing Lymphedema, Maintaining Quality of Life Lymphedema (poor lymph flow) is the buildup of lymph fluid in the tissues just under the skin. As the...
All About Breast Reconstruction: The Most Recent Advances for Rebuilding After Breast Cancer By Juliana Hansen, MD, FACS Associate Professor, Chief of Plastic Surgery Oregon Health and Science University Breast...
Getting Individualized Therapy for Breast Cancer: How the New Science of Genomics May Help Advances in the treatments for breast cancer have led to improved survival in the last 15 years. Doctors...
Decoding Drug Labels Mary Poppins wasn’t perfect. A spoonful of sugar may not make the medicine go down. By Judy Colbert Your...
Exercise, Yoga Benefit Breast Cancer Survivors Exercise—whether traditional aerobic or resistance exercise or yoga—provides important benefits to...
Inspiration, Hope & Resources
Writing as Refuge Mom blogger Jen Singer didn’t stop writing when she was diagnosed with cancer. By Jen Miller In 2007,...
All Women Are Equal. All Breast Cancers Are Not. Tackling racial disparity in breast cancer By Juliana Accioly In 2008, Dana Dukes was diagnosed with...
The Choice Is Yours Overwhelmed by your emotions? Remember that you can choose how you react to the challenges that come...
A Gift Beyond Words The Dream Foundation offers patients and loved ones dignity and hope during their end-of-life journey. By...
10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Ovarian Cancer You're Just Been Diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer: 10 Things Every Woman Should Know
For Oncologists
Bone Fractures in Breast Cancer Patients More Frequent with Femara than with Tamoxifen Researchers affiliated with the BIG I-98 Collaborative and International Breast Study Groups...
Single Treatment with High-intensity Focused Ultrasound Effective for Localized Prostate Cancer Researchers from McMaster University in Canada have reported that high-intensity focused...
Marital Separation Impacts Cancer Survival Researchers from the University of Indiana and the Fox Chase Cancer Center...
Depression May Predict Mortality in Cancer Patients Researchers from British Columbia have reported the results of a meta-analysis...
2009 Oncology Conference Coverage
View up-to-date coverage of the 2009 Oncology Conference here.
