Survivor guilt
You would think that surviving cancer would be like holding a winning lottery ticket. After all, you’ve “beaten death” haven’t you? You get to live. You should be elated but it doesn’t always… Continue reading
Tag Archive: Cancer
The post-treatment let-down
Dana Jennings is a reporter and editor at The New York Times. His postings on coping with prostate cancer appear each week at nytimes.com/well. Here Dana writes of an unexpected side-effect of cancer… Continue reading
Music as Medicine
Earlier this month I attended the inaugural International Association for Music and Medicine conference in Limerick, hosted by the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in association with UL’s… Continue reading
Yard Sale for the Cure
For Rachael Smith, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and now in remission,‘cancer’ means ‘community’ and so she created Yard Sale for the Cure. It’s an annual event where households across the country… Continue reading
Farrah and Ryan to wed
Ryan O’Neal has revealed on a U. S. chatshow that he will marry Farrah Fawcett. ‘I used to ask her to marry me all the time. But it just got to be a… Continue reading
“Voice of survivors”
“Voices of Survivors” is an organization, founded by Lynn Lane, a documentarty filmmaker and a cancer survivor. It is devoted to exploring ‘survivorship’ and what that means to the individual ‘survivor’, whether… Continue reading
Mind-body connection
Great post today by Dr Christiane Northrup, at the Huffington Post, on the science of the mind-body connection. She writes: “People often ask, “How can we become healthy in our current society?” If you… Continue reading
Keeping the memory of a loved one alive
Yesterday I wrote about Samantha Lehman who set up the Warwick Foundation in memory of her brother, who died from cancer. On a similar theme, I came across a short video piece on… Continue reading
Improving doctor-patient communication
I am delighted to learn that the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has launched an online education program that coaches healthcare professionals on skills they may never have been taught… Continue reading
