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?
. Last modified on : Nov 05 2024CancerChoices 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.
. Last modified on : Dec 02 2024Nurturing 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.
. Last modified on : Dec 12 2023Integrative Oncology Is Not Alternative Medicine
The intentional, coordinated use of complementary therapies and lifestyle practices alongside conventional cancer treatments is called integrative oncology.
. Last modified on : Feb 08 2024Nourishment for the Holidays
Chef and oncology nurse Laura Pole hones in on what nourishes her, knowing that food is only one nourishment she needs.
. Last modified on : Oct 23 2024The 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.
. First published on : Oct 27 2023Explorations 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.
. First published on : Oct 27 2023The Mystery of What Follows Death
Healing into life and awareness of our mortality are not opposites. They are two sides of the same coin.
. Last modified on : Oct 27 2023Visits 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.
. Last modified on : Oct 27 2023New 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.
. Last modified on : Jan 25 2025