Stress Reduction

Website Aims To Connect Cancer Buddies

Faced with a cancer diagnosis, or any challenging life event, you want to talk to someone who has already experienced what you are about to experience. You want to find stories about other people who have overcome adversity, preferably told by the people who went through it first-hand. You want to know what to expect. [...]

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Cigarettes Packs More Nicotine

While public and private groups, along with researchers and a few drug companies, have been making serious efforts to help smokers quit smoking cigarettes, the tobacco industry has been spiking the level of nicotine in cigarettes, according to a study by the Department of Public Health. Between the years 1998 to 2004, the amount of [...]

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Low Risk Prostate Cancer Patients Faces Dilemma

WASHINGTON — It took eight agonizing months for Charles Linzey to decide how to treat his early-stage prostate cancer. His wife, in contrast, had her early-stage breast cancer surgically removed just a month after diagnosis. It’s not that the Baltimore businessman was less decisive. Instead, Linzey ran into a distressing reality: Unlike with breast cancer [...]

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Cancer Center Teaches Using Aromatherapy to Heal and Soothe

August 25, 2006 – A bubble bath that improves memory – that gets the attention of most senior citizens. A kitchen cleaner that wards off nausea and energizes. A scented handkerchief that calms a patient entering the MRI. The benefits of aromatherapy are real, according to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. A cancer [...]

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Fly-Fishing Campaign “Retreat” For Breast Cancer Patients

The idea of Casting for Recovery is to not just survive, but thrive. It’s a program that puts together breast cancer survivors with fly-fishing instructors for a weekend retreat on the water, combining physical therapy with spiritual and emotional recovery. Linda Keller, a professor of rehabilitation counselor education at Western Oregon University, knows a lot [...]

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Optimistic Women With Ovarian Cancer Are Less Distressed

A study of women with ovarian cancer undergoing chemotherapy shows that those with a more optimistic outlook were less distressed and had a better quality of life. The study team also found that higher levels of optimism at the start of treatment were associated with greater declines in cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) levels during [...]

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Letting It All Out Might Increase Chances Of Cancer Survivorship

Stuffing your emotions, or keeping it all inside, has led more than one person down the path to trouble. At some point, if you do not express your thoughts and feelings, especially the negative ones, you stay emotionally frozen in time. It’s kind of like physically clubbing yourself over the head repeatedly day after day. [...]

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