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Yoga Helps Breast Cancer Survivors Get Better Sleep
 A  recent report on a study showing that yoga helps breast cancer survivors get better sleep may change my mind on the practice. I have attempted yoga a few times in my life and each time I come away thinking it was OK, but it didn’t do anything for me. If I am going to be active, I like to do something a little more intense like skiing, mountain biking or kayaking. As much as I enjoy these activities however, I love my sleep even more!   The study was conducted by Karen Mustian a researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center. It revealed that cancer survivors, most of them from breast cancer reporte...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - September 12, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer better sleep breast cancer survivors yoga Source Type: blogs

Cancer Recovery During a Pandemic
It’s been 18 months since I finished chemo for breast cancer, 15 months since I finished radiation at this writing, June 2020. My hair grew back a year ago. The tingling in my fingers is gone. I used to have heart flutters and some chest congestion; those symptoms have passed.   I had a mammogram recently; it was good. No “signs of malignancy.” That’s how the official language goes. I wasn’t expecting anything bad, but you never know. I saw my oncologist the following week. She felt my scar tissue. I have tenderness under my armpit where four lymph nodes were removed. She said it all felt fine. She also told m...
Source: World of Psychology - June 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Felicia Carparelli Tags: Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Personal Cancer coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic social distancing Source Type: blogs

Cancer Doesn’t Discriminate – another UK guest post
It’s raining outside and a big killer snowstorm is on its way from Kansas.  I opened my email this morning to find another interesting blog from the UK.  This one is from an osteosarcoma survivor named Becky McGuiness.  Like the … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - February 26, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Anxiety Sarcoma Source Type: blogs

Coping With Cancer – guest post
One of the reasons we like to read other blogs is to share in the experience of fellow survivors, looking for similarities and differences, new insights and catharsis.  But another sort of opportunity sometimes pops up – actual practical advice … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - February 6, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Acceptance Anxiety Melanoma Survivorship Source Type: blogs

New Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines From The American Cancer Society: What You Should Know
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in this country. In 2012, the American Cancer Society estimates that there were about 226,000 people newly diganosed with lung cancer, and 160,000 deaths. If there is good news here-and unfortunately there isn't much good news when it comes to lung cancer-it is that deaths from this dreaded disease have been declining in men and women, since fewer people are smoking. But there is much we have to do to improve this picture. That's one of the reasons the American Cancer Society is releasing new guidelines on screening for lung cancer. After carefully reviewing the availa...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - January 10, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Lung Cancer Prevention Screening Tobacco Treatment Source Type: blogs

Sharing Your Cancer Diagnosis – guest post
For a lot of us this problem presents itself right at a time when you really have too many other things to worry about:  you are newly diagnosed with cancer.  Who to tell?  When to tell them?  For Dee, today’s guest blogger, the problem was magnified by the extra sensitivity surrounding her diagnosis of vaginal cancer.  Dee just started her blog in January at WHAT kind of cancer? Please give her a visit. Sharing your diagnosis….to tell, or not to tell Having a cancer diagnosis, particularly a vaginal cancer diagnosis, brings with it the awkward position of either having to tell people what’s going on...
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 23, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Acceptance Anxiety Vaginal cancer Source Type: blogs

LAME advice from an oncologist on breast cancer
I believe this article was originally an announcement of a new doctor at a teaching hospital in Houston. But was later retitled "Oncologist advises what to do when after breast cancer diagnosis"It is very LAME advice. I actually do not consider it advice, may be on a very basic level. “My advice for any woman who suspects she may have cancer is that she ought not delay seeking treatment, even though it can be very scary and anxiety-producing,” she said. “My advice for newly-diagnosed patients is to bring one other person to your visit. It is very helpful to have extra eyes and ears to help you remember what is discus...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 23, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer medical advice Source Type: blogs

Cancer Is Scary, but It’s the MRI Machine That Terrifies Me
I mentioned in last’s week blog that I don’t scare easily. Well, that might not be completely true. I have two real fears — and they are major! For one thing, I am totally afraid of falling off a cruise ship. I am convinced that someone falls off a ship on every cruise. I can’t imagine anything more terrifying than finding yourself in the middle of the ocean, with the big boat you were on moving off into the horizon without you. I know that sounds random and irrational, but there you have it. My Biggest Fear My other fear is perhaps more relatable, especially for other women who may be living with metastatic breas...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - July 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Cancer Is Scary, but It ’s the MRI Machine That Terrifies Me
I mentioned in last’s week blog that I don’t scare easily. Well, that might not be completely true. I have two real fears — and they are major! For one thing, I am totally afraid of falling off a cruise ship. I am convinced that someone falls off a ship on every cruise. I can’t imagine anything more terrifying than finding yourself in the middle of the ocean, with the big boat you were on moving off into the horizon without you. I know that sounds random and irrational, but there you have it. My Biggest Fear My other fear is perhaps more relatable, especially for other women who may be living with metastatic breas...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - July 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Your Brain On Cancer
Once you enter cancerland, your brain takes detours all the time. Where do these detours go? BAD PLACES!" Is that a zit? No, of course not. Its a tumor. Must be skin cancer. "" A headache? No, a brain tumor. Dead in 3 months. "" Is that a swollen lymph node? Quick, leukemia or lymphoma, which one? "As you can easily see you brain with cancer goes down the wrong roads. Usually in the middle of the night. Or when your are stuck in traffic by yourself.You start making little deals with yourself. " I ' ll wait a month and see if its still a problem. No, a month? No three weeks. Wait, two weeks. Maybe ten days. Do I have any bl...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 11, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer detection fear of cancer living with cancer stress Source Type: blogs

A Young Adult Survivor Story: 15 Years in the Making
Nearly 72,000 young adults, ages 15-39, are diagnosed with cancer every year. April is the time when we highlight the unique challenges that young adult cancer survivors face like school, jobs, dating, getting married and having children. Over the years, LIVESTRONG has interviewed thousands of cancer survivors. Many of those survivors were filmed for our website including a woman named Kim Bergeron. Kim applied to become a LIVESTRONG Leader this year and we jumped at the chance to share her survivor story again 15 years in the making. Kim’s 2003 interview with LIVESTRONG LIVESTRONG: We interviewed you in the early 2...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - April 17, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs

Assessing damage from chemotherapy
To refuse chemotherapy for breast cancer is tantamount to suicide. Very few people who have been diagnosed with stage 2 or greater have survived the disease without aggressive treatment. Having said that however, I am well aware of the lasting and detrimental effects of chemotherapy drugs. Every day I feel those effects; my joints hurt, my brain dysfunctions and my eyesight waivers. What else has been done to my organs and other bodily systems I can only guess. While my oncologist continues to monitor me for recurrence or metastasis from the original breast cancer, blood tests will alert us to changes in my blood or marke...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - May 9, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Growing research shows how two of the major cancer treatments, radiation and chemotherapy, can lead to long-term cognitive impairment
Mind jumble: Understanding chemo brain (Stanford Medicine): Sarah Liu was treated for leukemia as a teenager. She attended her high school graduation on a four-hour pass from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and was bald under her white graduation cap, her arm bandaged where she’d been receiving chemotherapy drugs. Liu survived cancer and the ordeal of her treatment, and for many years she thrived. But today, at 53, she struggles to remember the names of all the Stanford oncologists who helped her, though she reveres them for saving her life. Many years later, her childhood cancer treatments — chemotherapy...
Source: SharpBrains - June 5, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology astrocyte chemo-brain chemobrain chemotherapy chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment cognitive difficulties Cognitive-impairment microglia myelin oligodendrocyte OPC Source Type: blogs

The time I realized I kicked cancer’s ass
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow. ― Thomas Paine Dear my oncologist, This year was my 11th anniversary as a breast cancer survivor. For the past 6 or 7 years, I have visited your office every year. I graduated to yearly check-ups after I passed my five-year anniversary, as you well know. My annual visit is usually sometime during the month of April as that coincides with when I received my diagnosis. Each yea...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Patient Cancer Patients Source Type: blogs

What ’s it like to be a child and your sibling is diagnosed with cancer?
By Christian Jarrett When the dreadful news arrives that a child has cancer, understandably the focus of parents and health professionals turns to supporting the sick child as best they can. But also caught up in the nightmare are the child’s siblings. Not only will they likely be consumed by shock and fear, but they must adapt to the cancer journey the whole family has to embark on. Official health guidance here in the UK and in the USA states that it’s important to provide support to the siblings of children with cancer. Yet the reality is we know relatively little about their experience. A new study in Cli...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: researchdigestblog Tags: Cancer Health Positive psychology Qualitative Source Type: blogs