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A Mad Cancer World – guest post
This one comes from a young woman diagnosed with AML, acute myelocytic leukemia.  She writes at Girl With The Swirl While I’m not caught up in ad world, I’m trying to take more small walks. Here’s the current predicament, which is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. I’m pretty sure I have muscle atrophy from completely suspending all my physical activities I used to do 8 months ago + 2 1/2 weeks of solid bed rest have now left me tired and sore from being in the same positions. It’s like my bed has a crater and I’m a moon unit officially parked on it. So in my attempt to get rid...
Source: Being Cancer Network - April 6, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Hospital Leukemia 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

Honoring Mary – guest post
Renn just passed her first year anniversary as a breast cancer blogger.  In this post she honors a fellow traveler whose journey had recently comes to its end. Renn writes at The ‘Big C’ and Me HONORING MARY Another bright light has been extinguished by breast cancer. Mary (aka MBJ on BCO) has died. Doctors gave her four months. She was gone in six weeks. Her passing has left the online breast cancer community at a loss for words. Cancer is some scary sh*t. I feel a need to honor this lovely woman who was so generous in spirit and insight; who always had a kind word to spare no matter where you found yourse...
Source: Being Cancer Network - April 10, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Death Guest Post * Living with Cancer Acceptance Breast cancer Source Type: blogs

Cancer Patients May Not Get The Rehab They Need: A Missed Opportunity To Consider
This blog post first appeared at: Curious Dr. George  Rehabilitation medicine is one of the best-kept secrets in healthcare. Although the specialty is as old as America’s Civil War, few people are familiar with its history and purpose. Born out of compassion for wounded soldiers in desperate need of societal re-entry and meaningful employment, “physical reconstruction” programs were developed to provide everything from adaptive equipment to family training, labor alternatives and psychological support for veterans. Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) then expanded to meet the needs of those injured in Wo...
Source: Better Health - April 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Health Tips Opinion Cancer Rehab Oncology Physiatry PM&R Rehabilitating From Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine Source Type: blogs

My 14 Year Old Cancer Patient May Be Addicted to Opioids. What Do I Do?
By JULIE KIM, MD I’m a pediatric oncologist, but cancer is not always the most serious problem my young patients face. Currently one of them, a 14-year-old boy, his mother, or both may be opioid addicts. I may be enabling their addiction. Tragically, their situation is not unique. Adolescent patients are at risk for addiction from opioid pain medications just as adult patients are. But pediatric patients are overlooked in this war against opioid addiction. No policies protect them or those caring for them. Usually pain is short-term, and only limited opioids are needed. Most providers, including those caring for children...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Cancer Julie Kim Opioids Source Type: blogs

Roger Chou ’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy“I ' m present. Uh … I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh … update.”- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, He...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs

Roger Chou s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDCs 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudyI ' m present. Uh I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh update.- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, Health Pro...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs

Am I ready for the Suvivorship Clinic?
Sunday, April 19, 2015current mood: feeling left behind So I went for my first one year checkup the other day. I have to admit I was a little more nervous than usual because, let’s face it, it had been a year and not the norm of 6 months. And of course the fear of having my blood drawn always scares me. What if they find something abnormal? What if my cancer is back? And then of course there is the fear of the blood draw itself, cause it usually takes lots of poking to finally find my vein. Yes, I’m one of those people who are crazy and say…Damn I miss my port! But Elio, who I have come to know and ask for,...
Source: Sharing My Cancer Crapness - April 19, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs

Who Would Win in a Fight Against Josh Sundquist and Me?
Author's note: The character described in this multi-part story is my creation and should not be interpreted as the actual public figure. Although most of the events are fictional, the helpful and motivating aspects of his character are real, and for that I am grateful to have received his guidance. Read this first: Who Would Win in a Fight between Josh Sundquist and Me? I followed Josh Sundquist to a bar near his residence in Clarendon. Though unsure if my south Arlington status would be accepted there, I desired his wisdom on life and love. I was diagnosed with Ewing’s during the age of invincibility, leadi...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - January 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: living habits imaginative Source Type: blogs

Alternative vs. Integrative Medicine
Once upon a time individuals facing cancer felt they had to choose between one of two options- surgery and chemotherapy or alternative treatment.  But a new breed of medicine is emerging, one that bridges the gap between the two worlds and offers the best of each.  It’s called integrative medicine and world renowned medical centers such as Harvard and Stanford are pioneering training programs for the physician of the future.      A Brief History   “Alternative medicine” was probably the first ‘other medicine’ term to gain popularity in the US and refers to treatments not taught in Western medical schools. ...
Source: Dr. Donna, MedicineWoman - February 1, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Dr. Donna Tags: Cancer Integrative medicine Personal Health Source Type: blogs

A Sort of Medical Vacation
I can ' t drive for the next three weeks - until November 8. I was concerned about all the doctor appointments I booked for myself after this week ' s surgery follow up when I thought I would be given permission to drive again.Then I got a bright idea. I am going to take a ' medical vacation ' and not go to the doctor until after my next surgical follow up. I mean why not? A mental medical vacation is a great thing to do several times a year. I was talking to a friend who ' s husband had gone through colon cancer. She talked about having a week off as being a sorely wanted break. I want three weeks off. Because I am whiney...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 18, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctor appointments stress vacation Source Type: blogs

Robotic Brace Measures Neck Mobility in Cancer Patients
Patients with head and neck cancer frequently require surgical removal of lymph nodes from the neck. While this is necessary, it can cause pain and stiffness that can persist for a long time after surgery. Assessing neck mobility of such patients wou...
Source: Medgadget - July 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Oncology Rehab Surgery columbia Source Type: blogs

Saying goodbye to Donna Gregory
Written by fellow HealthTalk blogger, Sue Falkner Wood Life is often a struggle. Many of us who live with daily health problems know this all too well. All of us who share our stories and our lives here at HealthTalk.com do so in order to enrich our own lives and the lives of others. The vast majority of us write about our own problems with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions was a courageous outgoing and sunny-faced young woman named Donna Gregory. She wrote about her husband’s illness and its effect on both of them, as a young couple and as parents to their 4-year-old twins, Bobby and Amanda. Donna shared her...
Source: Life with CLL - August 14, 2008 Category: Cancer Authors: Donna Gregory Tags: cancer Source Type: blogs