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Cancer and Friendship

By Rick Siefke — 2021

A common sentiment among cancer survivors is that having cancer really tells you who your friends are.

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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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Jane E. Brody
2007
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What Those with Chronic Pain or Illness DON’T Want to Hear

I've written this piece partly because I hope it will make those of us with health difficulties feel less alone and partly because I hope it will help others understand how to communicate with us better. With that in mind, I hope you'll find it helpful.

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Toni Bernhard
2012
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How to Cultivate Equanimity Regardless of Your Circumstances

A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.

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Toni Bernhard
2011
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Betrayed by My Body, Not by Life

In the end, I fall back on one statement that I repeat to myself pretty often. “We are not given the burdens we deserve, we are given the burdens we can bear.”

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Leroy Sievers
2021
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Please Help Out Those with a Disability or a Chronic Illness. You’ll Also Help Yourself.

I’ve been disabled and intensely ill with the degenerative neuro-immuno illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (formerly known by the misnomer “chronic fatigue syndrome”) for 30 years.

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Litsa Dremousis
2021
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Here’s Why Exercise Is Crucial in Preventing, Treating Cancer

A panel of experts has released guidelines stating that regular exercise can help prevent cancer as well as help people undergoing cancer treatment.

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Matt Berger
2019
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Living with Mortality: Life Goes On

Understanding the patterns of reaction to a prolonged illness with perhaps years of remission and a significant chance of being cured will help you put your emotional survival in focus while your doctor concentrates on your physical survival.

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Malin Dollinger, Bernard Dubrow
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Coping wth Fear of Recurrence

After treatment ends, one of the most common concerns survivors have is that the cancer will come back. The fear of recurrence is very real and entirely normal. Although you cannot control whether the cancer returns, you can control how much the fear of recurrence affects your life.

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Cancer.Net Editorial Board
2019
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Life After Cancer: Finding Meaning in the Mundane

I need to slowly add the important things back into my life.

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Jaime Robbins
2016
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How My Cancer Diagnosis Gave Me a New Purpose in Life

It wasn’t until I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from my urologist who informed me that I had prostate cancer that I started to panic. It took me a few seconds to comprehend what he was saying. He then ticked off a list of things I had to do.

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Bin McLaurin, Jo Cavallo
2019
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