Healthline Blogs
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Tips On Taking Pain Medication At Home
In order to help you manage your pain at home, health care providers suggest the following:Take the pain medication when the pain first begins.Ask your health care provider what you can expect from the pain medications, including possible side eff...
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Facing Uncertainty
As most people know individuals in California are battling fierce fires and the Santa Ana winds. Individuals who live near these fires are living with GREAT uncertainty as did many others last year with Hurricane Katrina as to whether everything t...
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Avastin to Treat Gliomas
Avastin is a cancer drug that has been shown and been approved to treat lung and colorectal cancers. A new study now has shown that Avastin can slow the growth and shrink tumors of a common form of brain cancer called glioma. This is exciting news...
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Optimism - Part VIII - How Your Emotional Computer Feeds Back
HOW YOUR EMOTIONAL COMPUTER FEEDS BACKYour mind is like a computer. Everything you have experienced and known is recorded in your mind and is ready to play back and affect your reactions to people and situations. There are basically three emotiona...
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9 Simple Ways to Live Well with Cancer
One of my nursing colleagues Katen Moore has written a book with Libbyu Schmals called “Living Well with Cancer” (2001, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, NY). In this helpful book designed for patients and families they list the following 9 simple way...
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Iyengar Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors
At a recent nursing research conference held in Washington D.C. Dr. Mel Haberman reported on 2 studies with 31 breast cancer survivors. The purpose of the study was to determine if participating in yoga would increase the immune response and quali...
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How to Think Optimistically - Part II
In our last article, we discussed how to interrupt negative trains of thought. Remaining optimistic while undergoing cancer treatment is paramount to a better recovery. Today, we will discuss two other states of mind that we need to be aware of an...
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Should I Tell My Health Care Provider I Want Complementary Therapies?
You should always discuss any additional therapies or self-care strategies that you want to initiate with your health care provider (e.g., doctor, nurse practitioner, physician assistant). Many complementary therapies may be helpful when done alon...
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An Example of A Credible Cancer Website
In my spare time I work with organizations like the American Cancer Society, Oncology Nursing Society, and Lance Armstrong Foundation. Last week I was doing some work related to the Lance Armstrong Foundation so I decided to go back and visit the ...
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Long-Term National Cancer Survivors' Issues
Despite the many advances we have made in treatment of cancers we still have not made many in the area of long-term survivoship.Tonight I agreed to lead a support group of indivdiduals who have survived cancer several months to 18 years. It was a...
