Patients & Survivors – Articles
We all have cancer cells — cells that grow abnormally — in our bodies. It is generally believed that the immune system’s natural capacity to detect and destroy abnormal cells prevents the development of many cancers.
Nevertheless, some cancer cells are able to evade detection and continue to grow…
Listen to or read the summary of an interview by Marianne Woods Cirone, MS, MFA, CYT-500 with Alene Nitzky, Ph.D., RN, OCN ®, Founder of Cancer Harbors™…
We at the Integrative Cancer Review are dedicated to promoting safe, effective and accessible complementary and integrative therapies for cancer care, and yoga plays a key role in those therapies.
Recent research validates the role of yoga in cancer treatment and after care.
Researchers are reporting findings that are—perhaps–beyond what even many in the yoga community expected as to the many ways that yoga supports health and well-being in people affected by cancer…
Fatigue is a common symptom in people treated for cancer…
April of this year will mark thirteen years since my breast cancer diagnosis at age 34. While I have always felt grateful to have survived cancer, I have also wrestled with depression.
Unfortunately, I am not alone.
Depression occurs in cancer patients at a rate three to five times higher than that of the general population…
My Own Introduction into Integrative Cancer Therapies by Mark Rosenburg, MD…
As the Program Coordinator for a new cancer resource center in a demographically diverse area, Jill Setork, MS, LCPC shares how “my colleagues and I are particularly focused on providing culturally inclusive programs.”
While there is much disagreement about nutrition as it relates to cancer, the words “Eat a rainbow of colors” is the advice from several cancer nutrition advocacy groups…
A great deal of research has been done on exercise and movement for people diagnosed with cancer…
Cancer-focused Nonprofits Serving Patients, Survivors, Families, Friends and Caregivers…
Expressing creativity can be healing to mind, body and soul, whether through visual art, writing or other avenues…
Part 2 of Lee Majewski’s 2 Part Article on how Yoga Therapy Retreats Empower Patients after a Cancer Diagnosis…
This article is a review of the book: n of 1: One Man’s Harvard-Documented Remission of Incurable Cancer Using Only Natural Methods by Glenn Sabin and Dawn Lemanne, MD, MPH.
Norman Plotkin is a certified hypnotherapist, former lobbyist and cancer survivor who has found his passion for helping people through coaching, practicing hypnotherapy, speaking, and writing around wellness, healing and recovery…
Unfortunately, the same cancer treatments that can help to save patients’ lives can also often result in long-lasting and devastating side effects. Fortunately, there are cancer care professionals dedicated to improving quality of life for cancer survivors and lessening the problematic side effects of cancer treatments…