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Prostate Cancer Diet Post Treatment
You were diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa). You underwent therapy. Perhaps even a total prostatectomy. After your therapy to put your cancer in remission, you began to wonder about a possible relapse?
Continue readingHolistic Care in Cancer Treatment for Seniors
Understanding the importance of holistic care in cancer treatment for seniors undergoing cancer treatment is key in healthcare. Seniors facing cancer often rely on in-home care services for comfort and
Continue readingDying from 5-FU Therapy
According to the article linked below, dying from 5-FU therapy doesn’t happen often. But when it does, it can be an awful death. Please understand that the chemo regimen fluoropyrimidine, usually
Continue readingSelf-Care and Spiritual Wellness During Cancer Treatment
During your cancer journey, incorporating self-care and spiritual wellness into your daily routine becomes a source of hope and strength. This path requires resilience, and through adopting specific strategies,
Continue readingEmpower Your Return: Steps to Reclaim Your Career After Illness
Embarking on a journey back into the workforce to reclaim your career after battling a long-term illness may seem formidable yet it is entirely within reach with a structured approach. This guide offers
Continue readingCancer and Heart Failure
Cancer and heart failure…heart failure and cancer. One can cause the other and common cancer therapies can cause heart failure. So what’s a survivor of either/or/both cancer and heart failure
Continue readingDiet as Mind-Body Therapy
Diet as Mind-Body Therapy? Or diet to help heart health, reduce your risk of chronic disease and your risk of cancer. Eating nutritiously helps calm me as I stress out about myriad side effects, fear of
Continue readingCardiotoxicity in Cancer
Cardiotoxicity in cancer can be a serious short, long- term and late stage side effect. In my research and experience, I think that the study linked below gives a satisfactory basic explanation of the
Continue readingHow Long is Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer?
How long should you undergo active surveillance if you have low-risk Prostate Cancer (PCa)? According to my experience compared to the study linked below, active surveillance among low-risk PCa patients
Continue readingUnreported Side Effects in Clinical Trials?
Who decides what are unreported side effects in clinical trails? Oncologists overseeing the trial? Patients who volunteered for the trial? Do you think cancer patients in clinical trials ever take a stoic
Continue readingSmoking Cessation and Cancer
Smoking cessation and cancer- or I should be more clear an to the point by saying that the positive effect that stoping smoking has on a newly diagnosed cancer patients is dramatic. I am a long-term cancer
Continue readingPancreatic Cancer and Diabetes
Pancreatic cancer and diabetes (PC, D) are two health conditions that may seem unrelated at first glance. However, there is a deeper connection between the two that needs to be acknowledged. In this article,
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