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Losing your Hair- Chemotherapy
I’ve been living with cancer since my diagnosis in early 1994. I’ve lived through lots of ups and downs, remission, relapse, short, long-term and late stage side effects, conventional, alternative,
Continue readingSocial Security Disability Insurance- Cancer
I am a long-term survivor of an incurable cancer (wait…what!?). When I was first diagnosed, I was your typical young (34) working person. My cancer diagnosis turned my world upside down. Fortunately,
Continue readingNewly-diagnosed Cancer- First Steps
Newly-diagnosed cancer can be overwhelming. I know because I’ve been there. I pride myself on being a long-term cancer survivor who has lived through conventional, non-conventional, alternative and
Continue readingEarly-Onset Cancer- Survivors, Self-Mgmt?
Early-onset cancer diagnoses, defined as cancer occurring in people ages 18-49, has increased more than 79% since 1990. Deaths due to these early-onset cancer diagnoses rose 27.7% since 1990. According
Continue readingHPV, Educating Patients, Families
The topic of cancer prevention can be hard to navigate. The number of cancer-causing foods, drugs, and simple behaviors that have some evidence of increasing the risk of cancer can be a daunting education.
Continue readingCryoablation Outperforms Radical Prostatectomy
“for PCa (cryoablation) using individualized cryoneedle delivery based on biopsy-proven cancer mapping achieved acceptable oncologic and functional outcomes with low rates of incontinence and complications.” You’ve
Continue readingGene therapy and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
“The immunotherapy, known as anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, puts a patient’s own immune cells through a laboratory process that results in the number of T-cells being
Continue readingLisa’s Story-Leukemia “Not Necessarily”
Does this mean I’m going to die?” Lisa asked innocently to Dr. Nantel, the hematologist at the Vancouver General Hospital. He had just diagnosed her with leukemia. “Not necessarily” was his reply Does
Continue readingAnita Mitchell- Stage IV Colon Cancer-
Mitchell had just turned 41 when she was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in February 2005. The cancer in her colon had already metastasized — Anita Mitchell is a busy mother to three children.
Continue readingHigh-Carb Diet- Colon Cancer Recurrence
“The researchers found that the colon cancer (CC) patients who ate a starchy high-carbohydrate diet were nearly twice as likely to have a recurrence as those who ate a better balance of foods…” First
Continue readingAnna Warner’s Thyroid Cancer Survivor Story
“Your thyroid gland absorbs nearly all of the iodine in your body. When radioactive iodine (RAI), also known as I-131, is taken into the body in liquid or capsule form, it concentrates in thyroid
Continue readingRenal Cell – IV Alpha Lipoid Acid, Low-Dose Naltrexone
After only a few treatments of IV α-lipoic acid and IV vitamin C, his symptoms (renal cell carcinoma) began to improve… While I think anecdotal evidence opens up cancer patients to only part of
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