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Self-Reliance & cancer

Below are the best resources we could find on Self-Reliance and cancer.

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How this 24-Year-Old Finally Discovered She Had Ovarian Cancer | ELLE Out Loud

When Amanda Kabbabe was 24 years old, she had just moved into her own apartment, was working at her dream job, and was settling into a serious relationship with her boyfriend of three years.

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Intuition Never Lies

I now realize that a framed piece of paper saying that someone is a doctor will never trump a gut intuition.

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Listen to Your Body—‘It Made All the Difference for Me’

I was told that I should receive an appointment in about six to eight weeks, but my gut was telling me that something wasn’t right, so I decided I wanted to get it investigated sooner than that.

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A Mother’s Intuition Gives Her Daughter a New Chance at Life

“Never stop asking. Stay on those doctors. If you feel something is wrong and your doctor isn’t doing something, go to someone else.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen: The Life Force (Excerpt)—from Thinking Allowed w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

Rachel Naomi Remen describes the awe and power of the life force-that enables thin blades of grass to grow up through concrete sidewalks. She emphasizes that we cut ourselves off from the power of the life force when we edit ourselves in accordance with the approval and disapproval of others.

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How to Starve Cancer . . . Without Starving Yourself

After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane threw herself into research. Already medically knowledgeable as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive.

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How Cancer Can Affect Relationships—Macmillan Cancer Support

Ron and his wife Linda share their experience of how their relationship changed after Ron was diagnosed with cancer. They discuss how it affected their communication, changed their roles and responsibilities, and how they coped with stress.

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Emotional Complications of Breast Cancer by Janet Harrison. (Especially Anger, Distress, and Asking for Help.)

Janet talks about feeling angry, feeling lost in the system, feeling isolated after initial treatment. Janet mentions benefits of psycho-oncology team (psychosocial care), voluntary services at Coping with Cancer (Helen Webb House) and also contacting Samaritans when desperate.

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