By Cancer.net — 2021
When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”
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Keep these tips in mind when you’re trying to maintain a healthy relationship while one or both of you are living with chronic illness.
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Inspiring others when you’re struggling yourself.
You not calling, as a friend, can actually compound the grief and loss they are feeling. Just pick up the phone, even if you get it wrong, just have a conversation and do your best. Your friend with cancer is still the same person they were before.
In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung cancer. Yet in all that time, doctors never told him or his husband whether the cancer was curable — or likely to take Mead-e’s life.
Accepting help from others when you have a cancer diagnosis isn’t a sign of weakness.
Research has shown that people with cancer need support from friends. You can make a big difference in the life of someone with cancer.
Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.
Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.
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