Tag: CancerForward - Part 5

What Is A Survivor’s Role in Survivorship Care Planning and Why Is It Important

By Tayla Salz, PhD I am a researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and I am interested in determining if cancer survivors get the information they need to get the best possible health care after they finish cancer treatment. After finishing cancer treatment, many cancer survivors become lost in the medical system….

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….

What Not to Say to a Cancer Patient

If you read my last cancer blog, “What Do I Say When Someone I Care About Gets Cancer,” you probably know that I won’t actually tell you what not to say to a cancer patient. That’s because words without context are meaningless. “You’ll be fine” may feel heartening one day, and dismissive another. For me,…

What Do I Say When Someone I Care About Gets Cancer?

My father’s best friend, Mendl, whose name was very close to my Hebrew name, Mindl, died of cancer when he was fifty. I was eight. There had been lots of illnesses before, but cancer was a whole new ballgame when it came to sickness. The word itself seemed to strike terror in the grownups as…

Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by a Cancer Survivor. Afterword.

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…

Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by a Cancer Survivor. Lesson Ten: Seize The Day.

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…

Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by a Cancer Survivor. Lesson Nine: Persevere.

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…

Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by a Cancer Survivor. Lesson Eight: Rejection Scars. Laughter Heals.

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…

Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by a Cancer Survivor. Lesson Seven: Be Principled.

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…

Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by a Cancer Survivor. Lesson Six: Make Wise Choices.

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…