These Gift Ideas For Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients Will Show How Much You Care
Do you have a friend or family member who is newly diagnosed with cancer? Chances are you’d like to get them a gift to show you’re thinking of them. While…
What Do You Do When Your Doctor Tells You Not To Google?
What do you do when your doctor tells you not to Google? A recent Twitter conversation prompted this question, so I set out to answer it with the help of…
Patient Advocacy: Ten Tips For Twitter Success
I love Twitter. It’s one of my favorite places on the Internet, and one of the few sites I visit more than once a day. I’ve been a Twitter user…
Patient Advocacy: 21 Tools To Help You Achieve More With Social Media
Recently I had the pleasure of taking part in an Ask Me Anything #patientchat about social media. I had forgotten how fast-paced a Twitter chat can be and given that…
Nourishing Your Body and Mind: Nutritional Advice For Cancer Survivors
There are few things more confusing to those of us who have had a cancer diagnosis than dietary advice. From conflicting recommendations from well-meaning friends to advice in magazine articles…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Its Many Shades of Pink (and Blue)
We are more than half-way through Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) – impossible to miss given the pink ribbon avalanche that arrives each Fall. While there is no denying that…
Patient Empowerment Revisited: Part 2
Welcome back to the second part of this discussion on patient empowerment. In Part 1 we looked at self-advocacy and the importance of having access to information which allows us…
Patient Empowerment Revisited: What Does It Truly Mean To Patients?
Language is constantly evolving in our everyday lives. This is also true of the language we use to describe patienthood. The words we use color how we view our world…
Quotation Inspiration: 10 Quotes to Inspire, Motivate and Uplift Cancer Patients
This month, I thought we could all do with a little quotation inspiration. When you’re dealing with cancer, some inspiring words can be just the thing to give you a…
Music as Medicine: The Healing Power of Music
The late neurologist, Oliver Sacks in his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” argued that music is essential to being human in ways that we’ve only begun to…
How Can You Best Support A Friend With Cancer?
What happens when someone close to you has been diagnosed with cancer? How do you find the right words to say? What is the best way to support them? And…
Cancer Trauma: How To Know If You’re At Risk and Key Strategies for Recovery
The impact of cancer extends beyond the merely physical. While treatment targets cancer specifically in the body, the experience doesn’t leave the mind, spirit or emotions untouched. The toll it…