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Search Results for: Adolescent Young Adult
Four Adolescent Young Adult Cancer Issues
Four?! Only four cancer issues? I didn’t say only 4, I’m saying these are the 4 most important cancer issues to an adolescent and young adult cancer patient. Looking back over my cancer experiences
Continue readingAdolescent and Young Adult Cancer – Psychosocial Care
I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at the age of 34. Technically speaking I was in the Adolescent and Young Adult age group. David Emerson Cancer Survivor Cancer Coach Director PeopleBeatingCancer The
Continue readingPediatric, AYA Cancer – Prevent Side Effects
“By age 45, 56% of the childhood cancer survivors diagnosed before age 15 had developed severe health problems, compared with 39% of survivors diagnosed in adolescence or early adulthood and 12%
Continue readingLung Cancer Prevention
Lung Cancer Prevention takes a different approach to reducing lung cancer deaths than does the article linked and excerpted below. The article below talks about lung cancer screening. Screening for lung
Continue readingAYA Cancer- Mental Therapies
AYA cancer survivors have more severe depression and anxiety than non-cancer survivors? Gee, remarkable findings. You mean that after living with short, long-term and late stage side effects AYA cancer
Continue readingCancer from CT Scans…
The risk of blood cancer from CT scans is small unless you are one of the people who are diagnosed with a blood cancer from a CT scan… The point of this blog post is to educate the reader about lifetime
Continue readingChildhood Lymphoma- Long-Term Misery
Childhood Lymphoma as well as other pediatric blood cancers, are curable. However, the cure comes at a price of a lifetime of long-term and late stage side effects. I am a long-term survivor of a blood
Continue readingCryoablation- Palliative Therapy for Bone Metastases
Percutaneous cryoablation is a safe, effective, and durable method of palliative therapy for pain due to bone metastases I underwent palliative therapy for my relapsed cancer in the fall of 1996. At the
Continue readingAYA, Pediatric Cancer Survivors
“These realizations allowed participants to piece together their understanding of cancer survivors and the health risks they now faced in a gradual way, months or even years after HCT…” Adolescent
Continue readingDrug Errors- Pediatric Cancer
Fully 47% of pediatric cancer patients were exposed to at least one medication error based on medical records, bottle checks, and direct observation by visiting nurses I was diagnosed with a blood cancer
Continue readingCost of Surviving AYA Cancer- Suleika Jaouad
Between co-payments, out-of-network costs, the out-of-pocket costs of my AYA cancer care have already amounted to tens of thousands of dollars… Cancer patients don’t know what they don’t
Continue readingChemotherapy-induced CVD
Chemotherapy-induced CVD in AYA cancer survivors is a short, long-term and sometimes a late stage side effect of both chemotherapy and radiation. In 2016, Kaiser Permanente published a peer-reviewed study
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