For Patients & Survivors



Cancer and Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: Risks and Medical Treatments

There are many types of pain associated with cancer and cancer treatment, one of them being Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy…

Cancer and Cortisol Rhythms: A Key to Health?

Researchers have found a variety of connections between cancer and cortisol rhythms…

Cancer and Range of Motion / Joint Pain

Cancer and cancer treatments can lead to a decreased range of motion and increased joint pain…

Cancer and the Immune System: Keys to Health

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…

Cancer Harbors: Filling the Gap in Survivorship Plans after Cancer Treatment

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™…

Cancer-Modified Yoga: Resources for Yoga Teachers

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…

Color Me Calm: 100 Coloring Templates for Meditation and Relaxation

This coloring book offers seven therapeutically-themed chapters intended to create a relaxation response…

Contemplative Hiking Along the Colorado Front Range

by Margaret Emerson

Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips

Kris Carr writes: On Valentine’s Day in 2003 I was diagnosed with a rare and incurable (yet thankfully slow-growing) stage IV cancer. This WTF moment sparked a deep desire in me to stop holding back and start participating in my well-being. Though I can’t be cured, I can still be healthy — I can still feel better, love harder and have a more joyful life. So I hit the road on a self-care pilgrimage and haven’t looked back.

Creative Prescriptions for Women With Cancer: Tools for Tapping into Your Stress-free, Creative, Happy Healing Space

Annette Tello developed the Creative Prescriptions program to specifically address many of the challenges faced by cancer patients…

Dealing with Fatigue During and After Cancer Treatment

Fatigue is a common symptom in people treated for cancer…

Depression after Cancer: My Experience by Jodi MacLeod

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…

Developing a Clinical Practice in Integrative Oncology with Mark Rosenburg, M.D.

My Own Introduction into Integrative Cancer Therapies by Mark Rosenburg, MD…

Developing Culturally Inclusive Programming at a Cancer Resource Center By Jill Setork, MS, LCPC

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.”