The Mystery of What Follows Death

Healing into life and awareness of our mortality are not opposites. They are two sides of the same coin.

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Visits with My Dead

Hundreds of people, especially Cancer Help Program alumni, have told me similar stories of friends and family who have appeared to them as they died, or were about to die, or after they died.

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Barbara Wolf Terao: Yew and Me

Dealing with something as difficult as cancer, partnerships can easily unravel. Or, if we can manage it, we weave new connections as we call on inner and outer resources previously unknown.

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Suz Mondello: Managing Chronic Pain and Normalizing Life with Cancer

Suz Mondello, a friend of Commonweal and alumna of the Cancer Help Program, speaks with CancerChoices staff Nancy Hepp and Laura Pole about her four-year journey with cancer.

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Suz Mondello: How I Responded to My Diagnosis and Created an Integrative Approach to Care

Suz Mondello, a friend of Commonweal and alumna of the Cancer Help Program, speaks with CancerChoices staff Nancy Hepp and Laura Pole about her four-year journey with cancer.

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Reflections on Caregiving

It isn’t selfish at all for you to acknowledge your own pain, suffering, and stress, and do whatever you can to bring nourishment, peace, and joy into your own lives as a priority and on a regular basis.

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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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