Chemo

Eating for Chemo and Radiation

Nancy Deville | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Cancer Diet, Anti-Cancer, Eating for Chemo, Recipes, How-to-Gain-Weight, Chemotherapy, Muscle, Juicing, Green Juice, Green Vegetable Juice, Smoothie Recipes, Muscle-Wasting, Chemo, Radiation, Soy, Cancer, Healthy Living News

During chemo and radiation, your diet is more important than it's ever been in your life.

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Through Kenny's Eyes

Carol Jones | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living Free, Light of God, Birth, Awareness, Rebirth, Signs of Deterioration, Chemotherapy, Chemo, Soul, Baby Boomers, Death and Dying, Surviving a Spouse, Grieving, Consciousness, Death & Dying, Grief, Cancer Therapies, Healthy Living News

The dual outcome will be not only to meet him where he is, but to be more closely in touch with my own soul. To uncover the joy and all the good things of the soul. To live them consciously.

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Family Sells Boy's Monster Drawings On Etsy To Help Pay For His Chemo

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Etsy, Chemotherapy, Monsters, Health Insurance, Chemo, Aidan's Monsters, Aiden Reed, Aiden's Monsters, Aidan Reed Leukemia, Impact News

Every day, Aidan Reed, a five-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, finds time between his chemotherapy treatments, painful spinal taps and onco...

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Memory Loss After Chemotherapy? Share Your Story

Idelle Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stories, Chemotherapy, Word Retrieval, Chemo Brain, Cancer, Memory Loss, Chemobrain, Chemo, Home News

For those of us who have traveled through cancer, or are experiencing it now, how does sharing our stories help us find our way?

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My Beautiful Bald Wife

Paul Kerr | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Surviving Cancer, Cancer, Chemo, Chemotherapy, Healthy Living News

What one may not so easily anticipate as cancer is the proverbial axe falling on a loved one instead, while you stand helplessly by wishing it could be you, but knowing full well that you do not get to make that choice.

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Is 'Chemo Brain' a Disability Under the Americans With Disabilities Act?

Idelle Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chemo Brain, Americans With Disabilities Act, Memory Loss, Chemobrain, Chemotherapy, Chemo, Cancer, Cognitive Impairment, Home News

Chemotherapy may have cured them -- and they rejoice in that -- but they mourn the loss of the person they once were.

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How Chemotherapy Changes the Way You Think

Idelle Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multitasking, Executive Functioning, Chemotherapy, Word Retrieval, Chemo Brain, Memory, Cancer, Chemobrain, Chemo, Health, Neuropsychologists, Post-Chemo-Brain, Home News

"Cognitive domains" -- That's how mental health experts explain which areas of the brain do what. People who have gone through chemotherapy often take a hit in some of these domain.

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Everyday Elder Abuse

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elder Abuse, William Bergman, Human Rights, Catholic Health Association, Oregon, European Charter of Patients' Rights, Washington State, Cancer, Medicare, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Aid in Dying, Margaret Furlong, Chemo, Torture, Intensive Care, Politics News

Tomorrow is World Elder Abuse Prevention Day. It's a day to appreciate that elders in our society endure abusive behavior every day and to consider ho...

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How Do You Repay the Parents Who Helped You Win an Olympic Gold Medal?

Nikki Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Support, Turtle Effect, When Turtles Fly, American Cancer Society, Prostate Cancer, Olympics, Health, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chemo, Family, Home News

As you read my blogs, keep in mind that these stories, anecdotes and tools are all based around my philosophy for success: THE TURTLE EFFECT (Highligh...

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Teresa Heinz Kerry Battles Breast Cancer: Books To Read

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teresa Heinz Kerry Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Books, Elizabeth Edwards, John Kerry, Chemo, Radiation, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Books News

Teresa Heinz Kerry, it has been announced, is being treated for breast cancer. Here are some books that might be helpful in sorting out a course of ac...

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Surviving Cancer: Today is my Cancerversary

parenting.com | Erin Zammet Ruddy | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Leukemia, Chemotherapy, Health, Cancer Survivors, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Backetball, Chemo, Wellness, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Healthy Living News

I may never be cured, but eight years later, I am still here. And I am a wife, a mother, a pregnant lady and (pretty much) cancer free. I could never ...

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Arrest Ordered For Colleen Hauser, Mom Of Boy Resisting Chemo

AP | AMY FORLITI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colleen Hauser, Daniel Hauser, Chemotherapy, Chemo, Home News

NEW ULM, Minn. — Authorities sought to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer who refuses chemotherapy after she fled with her son a...

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Living with Breast Cancer

Beth Feldman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stage IV Breast Cancer, Gal to Gal Foundation, Survivor, Breast Cancer, Health, Design Her Gal, Aggressive Breast Cancer, Cancer Treatments, Advanced Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Radiation, Chemo, Healthy Living News

"I'm grateful to my cancer for leading me down a path that is better than where I was before. I used to say 'I just want my life back' but I don't want the life I had before back, I just want Life."

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Newsflash: Breast Cancer Sucks, and You Can Die From It

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Her2neu Support, Young Survival Coaltion, Brca Gene, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, iVillage Breast Cancer Support Board, Chemo, Christina Applegate, Brca, Cancer Vixen, Breast Cancer, Herceptin, Health, Mastectomy, Chemotherapy, Brca2, Brca1, Genentech, Healthy Living News

Maybe a reality check isn't something you want when you're being bombarded with "Breast Cancer Awareness" messages. After all, that would be kind of scary.

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Advice For Christina Applegate: Fight the Good Fight, then Take Savasana

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Yoga, Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Hot Yoga, Chemo, Radiation, Happiness, Christina Applegate, Vinyasa, Herceptin, Healthy Living News

In my own experience as a 36 year-old breast cancer patient and now six-year survivor, yoga was the means by which I began the process of re-connecting with my body.

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From Cancer To Yoga: 10 Year Nap, My Ass!

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.17.2011

Yesterday, my mom called to tell me about this book she was reading: The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer. Since these days, most of my reading is done ...

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