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What is the most effective type of imaging and cancer? That depends on what you’re looking for. It depends on the type and stage of your cancer. An article touting preventive full-body preventive
Continue readingThe 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 readingWhat does the term “remission” mean to cancer patients? I ask this because people who live with my cancer, multiple myeloma, are in and out of remission for their entire lives. The technical
Continue readingCan I prevent cancer relapse and secondary cancer? I am referring to both my own cancer relapsing and/or many of the secondary cancers that I am at increased risk of. And I am referring to your own cancer
Continue readingI was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer called multiple myeloma in 1/94. I underwent surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and an autologous stem cell transplant from 1/94-9/97. I was told I was end-stage
Continue readingWill histotripsy reduce the side effects that result from cancer therapy? About 30% of PeopleBeatingCancer is dedicated to the adverse events aka side effects that can result from chemotherapy and radiation.
Continue readingIntermittent fasting & cancer, or I should say intermittent fasting during chemotherapy offers real potential as an evidence-based non-conventional therapy but, as always, the devil is in the details. The
Continue readingTesticular cancer is rare and largely curable type of cancer. I write about the short, long-term and late stage side effects of cancer frequently. But I have rarely written about the side effects of testicular
Continue readingHi David- I have been diagnosed with bladder cancer stage II. The mass was removed but the cancer may have invaded the muscle tissue. My oncologist wants to go with NCCN guidelines and recommends the
Continue readingMyeloma is an incurable cancer. A reasonable percentage of MM patients achieve minimal residual disease (MRD) from their induction or ASCT. This means that chemotherapy and radiation can kill myeloma cancer
Continue readingIs mistletoe extract (ME) an anti-cancer therapy or an anti-side effect therapy? Or both? ME is one of those complementary therapies that often asked about in some of the online groups that I monitor. According
Continue readingCancer survivors (CS) have older hearts because most CS’s undergo chemotherapy. Chemotherapy that ages the person and ages the person’s heart. We all learn this in grade school but I’ll
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