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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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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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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Introducing the 7 Lifestyle Practices

These 7 Lifestyle Practices are all things you can do for yourself. They cost little or nothing. They are the heart of self care.

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Eating Well

Eating Well is one of our top-rated practices for improving cancer outcomes. Both conventional and integrative oncology professionals recommend Eating Well as part of cancer control.

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Harold: A Cancer Treatment Story

Harold learned to grow and examine what was needed for healing beyond just his cancer during treatment. This is an opportunity to exercise hope and understand that love is the answer.

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Deborah Baker: Insights from a Caregiver

The very challenging first step is the private admission and acceptance that you need help.

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Preparing to Be Vaccinated: An Integrative Approach

You can take actions that may improve your immune response to vaccination.

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Nourishment for the Holidays in These Unusual Times

I am honing in on what nourishes me, knowing that food is only one nourishment I need.

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Maturing with Time and Evidence: The Updated American Cancer Society Lifestyle Guidelines

Most of all, they stress how important it is to adopt healthy patterns of eating and moving.

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