Connecting with Others Who Have Walked the Path of a Cancer Diagnosis

We all differ in the types of support that we need and in how much we wish to share with others about our experiences. But we all benefit from being held in empathy, compassion, and connection—and our bodies often show us. 

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What to Do When Your Oncologist Doesn’t Support Complementary Therapies

What might you do when your oncologist doesn’t support your desire to incorporate complementary therapies and self-care practices into your care plan?

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CancerChoices Year-end Reflections—2023

We want to help you or someone you care for to live as well as possible for as long as possible. The way we do all of this is to help you or someone you care for understand both the strengths and weaknesses of all three modalities—conventional, self-care and complementary approaches.

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Nurturing the Caregiver: Managing Holiday Stress

The holidays carried a unique weight when my husband was in the thick of cancer treatments. Reflecting on that challenging time, I recall simple stress-relief techniques that saw me through.

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Integrative Oncology Is Not Alternative Medicine

The intentional, coordinated use of complementary therapies and lifestyle practices alongside conventional cancer treatments is called integrative oncology.

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Nourishment for the Holidays

Chef and oncology nurse Laura Pole hones in on what nourishes her, knowing that food is only one nourishment she needs.

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The Way to the Stars: How I Chose to Mark My Death

Sometimes we wander through the cemetery and look at the gravestones of our many friends there as well as the old stones.

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Explorations on Death

How do we live with our own mortality? How do we encounter the reality that we must die? Michael Lerner explores these and other questions.

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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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