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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
others ' eloquent voices
I was actually doing much better between when I blogged last time and when I went in for CyberKnife radiation last Thursday. I was walking and eating (and had even been out for dinner once and gone to book club). I was still needing to rest a lot but I could see the improvement in every day. And that was heartening. CyberKnife was a major setback. I remember that it was last time, too (so much so that I never really wrote about it - just wanted to move on). That ' s just how it goes for me, I guess. I had brain swelling, headache, nausea, loss of balance, fatigue (yet little sleep) and a very odd taste in my mouth.I s...
Source: Not just about cancer - June 8, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: activism brain metastasis breast cancer cancer blog chronic illness community cyber knife good stuff metastatic radiation show and tell surgery writing Source Type: blogs
others' eloquent voices
I was actually doing much better between when I blogged last time and when I went in for CyberKnife radiation last Thursday. I was walking and eating (and had even been out for dinner once and gone to book club). I was still needing to rest a lot but I could see the improvement in every day. And that was heartening.CyberKnife was a major setback. I remember that it was last time, too (so much so that I never really wrote about it - just wanted to move on). That's just how it goes for me, I guess. I had brain swelling, headache, nausea, loss of balance, fatigue (yet little sleep) and a very odd taste in my mouth.I still do....
Source: Not just about cancer - June 8, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: activism brain metastasis breast cancer cancer blog chronic illness community cyber knife good stuff metastatic radiation show and tell surgery writing Source Type: blogs
Poor Quality Sleep: A Silent Source of Disability in Breast Cancer
The post below ran on Huffington Post Healthy Living on May 13. It is authored by Hrayr Attarian, MD, FACCP, FAASM, Member of the Society for Women’s Health Rearch Network on Sleep and Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Research Lab for the Society for Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep.
Poor quality sleep is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and can have a negative impact on mood and energy, cognition, metabolic and immunological function, as well as lead to weight gain [3].
Sleep-related complaints are quite common in women with b...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
A Rerun: Helping People With Cancer
I know this is a popular subject with people with cancer - how and how not to help them. Some people are idiots. I can tell you story after story about ones I have met along the way.You aren ' t going to get cancer by mentioning the word ' cancer ' . Seriously? Its an ugly word but its not an obscenity that will cause someone to pass out. You can ' t ignore the elephant in the room. Ask how their treatment is going, how they are feeling (but not that vague, polite ' how are you today? ' bullshit). Never tell them about your cousin ' s neighbor ' s dog walker ' s hair dresser ' s sister ' s cancer treatment. You are no...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 6, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being a patient cancer death humor idiots Source Type: blogs
Life in cancer land
is never normal. Every little thingy becomes suspicious and requires further testing. It doesn't matter if it has any relation to previous ailments or is new or not but you always get the 'because of your history we need to be sure...' line.I was talking with a friend about it this morning. There is a nasty level in the diagnostic process that is called 'big enough to see but too small to do anything about it'. It is almost as bad as the 'there are too many thingies to think about surgery' but not really.Basically its a sh*thole that cancer people live in suspended animation for days, weeks, months or even years. Going fr...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 20, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: scans stress cancer history Source Type: blogs
Post Breast Cancer, Happiness Is A Clear Mammogram
I had my mammogram last week. I don't talk about these ahead of time because I don't feel the need to. If I feel the need to, you can bet my blog will be covered in mammogram information.But even if I don't talk about it, doesn't mean I am not thinking about it. You can bet I was thinking about it. I was convinced that I had a recurrence and I timed my mammogram (for two days before my annual oncologist appointment). I was sure I had a something.I had already started putting together a plan in my head on how I was going to handle it, tell people, deal with treatment, talk to my oncologist on Friday about it. I was positive...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 17, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer recurrence crazy happiness mammogram Source Type: blogs
Ewing Sarcoma and a Purpose Driven Life: Part II
This is the final installment of a three-part short story which spans my 11th and 12th anniversaries of surviving bone cancer. You can read the first two parts here (in order):
The Journey of Ewing Sarcoma
Ewing Sarcoma and a Purpose Driven Life: Part I
Ewing would need an assistant to help him fulfill his purpose. He considered contacting local high schools for cheap labor, but who was he kidding—nobody was as brilliant or fun as Pong. Some of their oxy and sewage-charged evenings were epic. If he returned his brain to that precise chemical imbalance then maybe he would remember the forest trails that led back to Pon...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - September 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: life lessons cancer-free anniversary imaginative animals Source Type: blogs
Reconceptualizing Health and Health Care: Why Our Cancer Care Delivery System Is In Crisis
Cancer Care System in Crisis
Americans fear cancer. In a poll for MetLife, when participants were asked which major disease they feared most, 41 percent said cancer, 31 percent said Alzheimer’s disease, and small percentages of other respondents said other diseases. Not surprisingly, The National Institutes of Health has a budget allocation of $4.9 billion for 2014 to The National Cancer Institute, far more than any other Institute and over 25 percent of the NIH’s total funding to study organ-based diseases ($19.2 billion).
Despite this longstanding commitment to cancer research, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reporte...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 23, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Carolyn Payne and William Dale Tags: All Categories Chronic Care End-of-Life Care Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Long-Term Care Source Type: blogs
How to Lower Your Risk for Breast Cancer
“TREE OF HOPE” Breast Cancer Survivor Tree
I found out I had breast cancer on June 11th 2014. I had a double mastectomy on July 3rd 2014. I am 4 months out from surgery and I am feeling great. However, as you might imagine, it was no walk in the park. Lots of emotional upheaval. Lots of physical difficulty. But with great support from friends, family and good health care workers I’m doing very well.
Over the last 4 months I have spent most of my free time learning about cancer and in particular breast cancer, what causes it and what cures it. Before my diagnosis, it never crossed my mind that I would get b...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living breast cancer lower breast caner risk prevent breast cancer prevent breast cancer naturally Source Type: blogs
Body Image Matters
It begins with slicing and ends with scars and drains and much, much more. What our bodies (and minds and emotions) have undergone is nothing less than miraculous. Although healing is the natural response to cancer (thank goodness), we chunk it out based on what we’re able to cope with and where we want it to take us. Each night we go to sleep with what remains, and it’s not always a pretty sight—even for the most enlightened survivors among us.
Body image. It affects 75% of us. Breast and head and neck cancer patients especially wrestle with it, due to the disfigurement we experience after treatment. (Those with imp...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 13, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Body Image Cancer Source Type: blogs
Exercise as part of cancer treatment
In a first, a national cancer organization has issued formal guidelines recommending exercise as part of cancer treatment, for all cancer patients. The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) is very clear on the directive. Its recommendations are:
Exercise should be embedded as part of standard practice in cancer care and viewed as an adjunct therapy that helps counteract the adverse effects of cancer and its treatment.
All members of the multi-disciplinary cancer team should promote physical activity and help their patients adhere to exercise guidelines.
Best practice cancer care should include referral to an accr...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Cancer Exercise and Fitness Health Source Type: blogs
The Promise of Death
My mother is dying. For her it is a slow and peaceful process. For me it is a painful one as I see her retreat more and more into another place where I can’t follow or find her. She is comfortable and pain-free and well taken care of; all the things anyone would want for a loved one in these circumstances. Still, she is my mother and I am struggling with letting go.
She lived up to her married name of Elizabeth Taylor. Like the star whose name she shares, she was always so vibrant and beautiful, the star of every family holiday and the catalyst of most of the family drama. Surprisingly, being calm and peaceful suits her...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - May 30, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
At this rate I might damn well live forever
Get inspired by Trish when you want to learn about the ups and downs during a metastatic liver cancer treatment. 95% of the time I am happy. 5% of the time I get down and I can’t sleep. Trish lets you look inside her life and emotions from 2 years before she was […]
Source: Metastatic liver cancer - March 3, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: Daughter SK Tags: Trish Metastatic Liver Cancer Survivor Source Type: blogs
