Tag: cancer rehabilitation
National Cancer Survivors Day® is Cause For Celebration
By Beth Sanders Moore Today is National Cancer Survivors Day 2013, and the day is cause for celebration! Here’s why: The number of cancer survivors is growing. There are an estimated 13.7 million survivors living today. By the year 2020, that number is expected to increase by 30% to 18 million. Cancer survivorship care is…
Awaiting Me After Cancer: The STAR Program
Editor’s Note: To mark National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012, CancerForward asked Julie Silver, MD, to share her story of breast cancer survivorship from her perspective as a doctor. Dr. Silver is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the co-founder of Oncology Rehab Partners, LLC….
Cheers On This National Day for Cancer Survivors
As cancer survivors, we can’t change the fact that we’ve had cancer. We can control how we approach it and how we deal with it. In part, it’s our choice…it’s up to us. It’s up to us to carry on, to live a full and meaningful life…to move forward. After all, a “survivor” is one…
Planning to Survive Cancer
According to a study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago this week, more than 95 percent of the time, cancer specialists accurately recognize the presentation of side effects of cancer treatment years after the treatment is completed. That’s compared to primary care doctors who are much less successful in identifying…
Will Cancer Rehab Help Me?
Imagine that you are an active person who is fully engaged in a busy life full of work, family, friends, and community responsibilities. Squeezing in an annual physical examination with your doctor is not easy to do, you have so many other commitments. But, you do manage to get an appointment and go for your…
Ten Years of Christmases
When I awoke December 25, 2000, everything in my life was at its best, or so I thought. I was the magical age of 45…that place in the continuum where respectable adults can still wear the fringe of unbridled youth, or at least hope to…try to. I celebrated the first year of the millennium with…