Cherie Sampson: “every.single.one”

Dance as a healing practice is an important throughline in the performance, as it was during my treatment and recovery.

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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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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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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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Vitamin D: Hit the Sweet Spot to Reduce Cancer Risk

Evidence so far shows a lower risk of many types of cancer among people with mid-range blood vitamin D levels compared to low levels. However, if your blood level is already in the middle range, taking vitamin D supplements might not bring much benefit regarding cancer risk.

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Kay: A Cancer Recurrence Story

Now that she’s completed her chemotherapy, she wants to explore healing practices and therapies that will help keep the cancer from recurring.

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Lindsay McDonell: Chemosensitivity Testing

BCCT/CancerChoices asked integrative oncology navigator and breast cancer survivor Lindsay McDonell to explain chemosensitivity testing for fellow cancer survivors.

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Leda Dederich: I Recognize This Weird Silver Lining of the Terminal Cancer Experience

Three years ago, at age 45, I found a lump in my breast that would mark the end of my life as I knew it.

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Reflections from a Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer on How to Improve Cancer Care

It was only when I was diagnosed in 2015 with stage 3 breast cancer that I realised how little I actually knew, and how ill-prepared many patients are to face the hurdles in front of them.

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