New Efforts to Make Cell Therapies Like CAR-T More Accessible for Patients

Cell therapies like CAR-T are an extraordinary new class of drugs that have the potential to successfully treat cancer.

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M. Patricia Díaz: Overcoming Stage 4 Cancer as a Teen and My Remission Journey to Wellness

When mom took me to her doctor, I was barely able to breathe. I looked at my lungs on the X-ray—one was white and the other black. Shortly after, I was surrounded by doctors and nurses, family and relatives. I had no idea what was happening.

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Reflections on Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is a prime example in which an integrative approach may be incorporated not only for reducing the risk of primary prostate cancer, but in treating and reducing risk of progression or recurrence.

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Reflections on Breast Cancer

Integrative breast cancer care has a remarkable amount to offer you. It can add to your treatment, help with side effects, benefit your quality of life, help you get well again, and reduce your risk of recurrence. Psychologically and spiritually, it can have transformative effects.

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Sue Cohen: Poetry and Painting on the Path Forward

The creative expression in this painting and poetry journey supported me in approaching the original trauma of my cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment, recuperation, and life afterwards.

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Healing and Curing

In Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, Michael Lerner describes both healing and curing cancer, suggesting how they differ and how they relate to each other. This post draws from the second chapter of his book.

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Lindsay McDonell: Cancer and the Loss of Anticipation

There are three big areas that we can base our lives on: the past, the present, and the anticipation of the future. I focus on the now. It’s the only thing I can do.

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Lindsay McDonell: When the Cancer Comes Roaring Back

I opened the email with my monthly blood lab results. My tumor markers doubled from 33 to 70 in a month. So much for stable.

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7 Lifestyle Practices: Being Active in Your Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

Did you know that being active in your wellness by building practices and habits can improve your outcomes with conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, surgery, and immunotherapy?

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How to Evaluate Trustworthiness of Websites on Complementary Cancer Therapies

How can you tell the sites with supportable claims from those that are less trustworthy?

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