How do you survive cancer?
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How do you survive cancer?
- If You Have Cancer, See a Specialist.
- Find a Medical Team That Specializes in Your Type of Cancer.
- Get a Second Opinion (And Maybe a 3rd or a 4th)
- Learn All You Can About Your Cancer and Use the Resources Available.
- Seek Support From Friends, Family, and a Cancer Support Community.
What is the outcome of chemotherapy?
Chemo is considered a systemic treatment because the drugs travels throughout the body, and can kill cancer cells that have spread (metastasized) to parts of the body far away from the original (primary) tumor. This makes it different from treatments like surgery and radiation.
What cancers are hardest to cure?
The 10 deadliest cancers, and why there’s no cure
- Pancreatic cancer.
- Mesothelioma.
- Gallbladder cancer.
- Esophageal cancer.
- Liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer.
- Lung and bronchial cancer.
- Pleural cancer.
- Acute monocytic leukemia.
How does cancer cause pain?
Pain could happen if the cancer grows into or destroys nearby tissue. As a tumor grows, it can press on nerves, bones or organs. The tumor can also release chemicals that can cause pain. Treatment of the cancer can help the pain in these situations.
Can the mind help fight cancer?
Researchers are now experimenting with methods of actively enlisting the mind in the body’s combat with cancer, using techniques such as meditation, biofeedback, and visualization (creating in the mind positive images about what is occurring in the body).
Can a cancer patient “win the war”?
Cancer battles must invariably be bravely fought, won, or lost. Using this metaphor implies that if a patient fights hard enough and/or long enough, he or she will be able to “win the war.”
Do we see people with cancer as battling or fighting it?
“It seems,” in the words of breast cancer blogger Maureen Kenny, “if you’ve got cancer you’re almost always seen as battling or fighting it, more often than not bravely. We never hear of anyone dying of the disease after a lacklustre, take or it or leave it, weak-willed tussle.”
Is it possible to write about cancer without resorting to ‘lost fight’?
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve read about patients who are in remission from cancer, having “won their fight” against the disease. Journalists in particular seem incapable of writing about a person who has died from cancer without resorting to the “lost fight” cliché.