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Crazy Sexy Cancer

2007

An irreverent and uplifting documentary about a young woman looking for a cure and finding her life. Weeks after she was diagnosed, filmmaker Kris Carr began documenting her story. Taking a seemingly tragic situation and turning it into a creative expression, Kris shares her wild journey with exuberance, humor and sass.

90 min

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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer.

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10 Strategies to Try When You’re Sick of Being Sick

After 15 years of chronic illness and even after writing a book titled How to Be Sick, I still can feel sick of being sick. (When I use the word “sick,” I’m including chronic pain.) If you’re as intimately familiar as I am with sick of being sick, you know how unpleasant it feels.

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20 Tips for Living Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

To celebrate the release of my new book, How To Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide, I’ve made a list of 20 tips to help with the health challenges all us face at one time or another in life.

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Living Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

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Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment

Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived long, full lives beyond their original prognoses.

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The Truth About Alternative Medical Treatments

Americans believe cancer can be cured through alternative therapies alone, according to a survey conducted by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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Complementary Therapies for Pain

Complementary therapies can be used to help with pain. These methods draw your attention away from the pain and release muscle tension caused by pain.

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Types of Complementary Therapies

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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Pain Management & Cancer Care

There are many different methods to control cancer pain.

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Are Certain Cancers More Painful than Others?

While all cancers can cause pain, some, such as those affecting the bones or pancreas, are more frequently associated with pain. Regardless of the type of cancer, it’s important to remember that cancer pain can often be treated.

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Cancer