Tag: cancer survivors - Part 4
With Life-Saving Health Reforms Now in Place for Cancer Survivors, I Remember Elizabeth
Today, while cancer survivors like me are cheering, I am remembering a particular survivor – no longer with us – who must be looking down with great joy for her fellow survivors and in knowing hers was a job well done. Were she with us, attorney and health care reform advocate Elizabeth Edwards would be…
A New Focus On Cancer Survivorship: An Eye On Science And An Eye On Care
Cancer survivors are all a tweet about A Report: Cancer Treatment & Survivorship Facts & Figures 2012-2013 released yesterday at the kickoff of the 6th Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference. There’s a great deal of excitement wrapped around the release of these new stats: the population of cancer survivors in the US has grown from…
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…
Survivor Scars: Embarrassing, Difficult Reminders or Sources of Pride?
Most adults have scars. However, cancer survivors often have distinctive physical and emotional scars. In this first post of a two-part series on scars, I focus on psychical scars, saving a discussion about emotional scars for my next blog. In total, I have eight recognizable scars from cancer. A couple scars are noticeable, while my…
Emotional Scars: Less Visible But Run Deep
In a previous CancerForward blog post, I relayed some of my experiences with the physical scars I received from my treatment for cancer. Although perhaps less visible to others, the emotional scars from cancer do not quickly fade and can be very serious. A recent study conducted by the Duke Cancer Institute discovered that cancer…
4 Easy Ways for Cancer Survivors to Lead an Active Lifestyle
Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of exercise for prolonging life and preventing cancer. One recent study found that individuals that exercise just 15 minutes per day were 10% less likely to die from cancer (Washington Post 2011). In addition to decreasing the likelihood of getting cancer, exercising helps increase one’s health overall (Mayo Clinic…
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…
CancerForward Rolls Out New Free National Program to Connect Cancer Survivors
CancerForward: The Foundation For Cancer Survivors today announced the creation of ConnectToForward, a fundamental initiative of the Foundation’s three-prong mission to connect, educate and share information among cancer survivors through its website, cancerforward.org. ConnectToForward is a national outreach and partnering program developed to introduce CancerForward’s virtual cancer survivor community to constituents of the 300 U.S….
The Power of Words: Communication holds the key to better cancer care and survivorship
Celia Bandman from the Center for Communication in Medicine wrote to me several months ago saying “As a writer I am haunted by Mark Twain’s words: ‘The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning’. This quote from Mark…
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…