Coping with Cancer
A wide variety of professionals share their knowledge and experience in easy-to-read, relevant articles, and patients, caregivers, and survivors share their strategies for coping with cancer.
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Learning to Advocate for Yourself to Get the Support You Need through Cancer
Communicating your needs when you have cancer may seem straightforward, but for many people, self-advocacy can be challenging. However, once you learn how to advocate...
Finding Holiday Joy While Coping with Cancer
The holiday season can be a wonderful time of year, filled with cherished traditions and quality time spent with loved ones. It can be the...
Just Got Diagnosed?
“I just got diagnosed with cancer. Now what do I do?” As a therapist who specializes in working with people facing a serious medical diagnosis, including...
Writing Your Way Through Cancer
Writing can be therapeutic during cancer treatment and beyond. It can provide an opportunity for self-expression and serve as a helpful distraction. Research shows that,...
Facing the Fear of Cancer Recurrence
Almost all cancer survivors have a few things in common: shock at being diagnosed, significant challenges in dealing with the side effects of treatment, and...
Multiple Myeloma
Your oncologist, nurses, and other members of your healthcare team work together to treat your multiple myeloma. Since medical appointments are...
For Lung Cancer Survivors
When you are diagnosed with lung cancer and start receiving treatments, you begin to realize the many changes that are happening in your life....
Keeping Up Appearances
Where I come from, looking good was all that mattered. In Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in the 1950s, what you wore to church on Sunday was...
I’ve Just Been Diagnosed with Cancer. Now What?
A diagnosis of any type of cancer can be shocking and devastating, even if it is treatable or curable. When you first learn you have...
A Fresh Take on Journaling through Cancer
You’ve probably heard this before, but if you’re a cancer survivor (or the care partner of a cancer survivor), writing down your feelings and...
Mastering Mindfulness
As we go about our daily lives, our natural tendency is to focus on planning what we need to do or have to do next....
Express Yourself
A cancer diagnosis can change how you seek support from others. You may look to close friends for lighthearted distraction, or unwavering reassurance, in stressful moments....
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