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fromBuzzFeed
1 day ago

I'm A Death Doula. Here's What I've Learned About The End Of Life.

Being a death doula provides profound insights into life and mortality, inspiring a deeper appreciation for each moment.
#cancer-research
Cancer
fromNature
4 days ago

Why is heart cancer so rare? The pumping muscle 'beats' it

The beating heart inhibits cancer growth, explaining the rarity of cardiac tumors in mammals.
Cancer
fromNature
1 week ago

Four rising stars shaping the future of cancer research

A new generation of cancer researchers is focused on improving diagnostics and treatments to enhance survival rates for cancer patients.
Cancer
fromNature
4 days ago

Why is heart cancer so rare? The pumping muscle 'beats' it

The beating heart inhibits cancer growth, explaining the rarity of cardiac tumors in mammals.
Cancer
fromNature
1 week ago

Four rising stars shaping the future of cancer research

A new generation of cancer researchers is focused on improving diagnostics and treatments to enhance survival rates for cancer patients.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
4 days ago

AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy

AI chatbots may recommend unproven cancer treatments, posing risks to patients seeking health advice.
fromBusiness Matters
6 days ago

How Patient Experience Is Shaping Modern Dental Practice Management

Patients are increasingly selective in choosing their healthcare providers, demanding convenience, transparency, and personalised service at each point of contact. Dental practices understand that a positive patient experience can lead to strong word-of-mouth referrals and favourable online reviews, which directly impact their reputation in the market.
Healthcare
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

The Health of American Surgeons, We Are Not Okay

The Pitt accurately portrays the mental health struggles faced by medical professionals, highlighting the alarming rates of physician suicide.
Cancer
fromwww.bbc.com
4 days ago

Breast cancer type study 'critically under-funded'

Women are campaigning for increased funding for lobular breast cancer research, which is under-recognized and under-studied despite affecting 15% of breast cancer cases.
Retirement
from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

Cancer Patient Paid Off Mortgage Early. Did She Make a Huge Mistake?

Paying off the mortgage early provided financial security for a cancer patient, despite friends suggesting otherwise.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
4 days ago

'Adenomyosis ruined my life'

Adenomyosis causes debilitating pain and is often dismissed by healthcare providers, leading to frustration and inadequate treatment for affected women.
Cancer
fromNature
1 week ago

Improving cancer survival rates will require hard policy choices

Global cancer incidence is rising, necessitating early detection strategies and public education on risk factors.
#pain-management
Medicine
fromBig Think
1 month ago

The 3 pillars of pain: A radical new way to understand why you hurt

Pain is a biopsychosocial phenomenon influenced by biological, psychological, and sociological factors, requiring a holistic treatment approach.
Medicine
fromBig Think
1 month ago

The 3 pillars of pain: A radical new way to understand why you hurt

Pain is a biopsychosocial phenomenon influenced by biological, psychological, and sociological factors, requiring a holistic treatment approach.
#chronic-pain
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

"Lower the Emotional Volume": Chronic Pain

Chronic pain often outlasts tissue healing due to central sensitization, requiring psychological and behavioral approaches alongside physical treatments.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Intentionally Cultivate Gratitude to Manage Chronic Pain

Redemptive gratitude—focusing on positive outcomes related to chronic pain—can reduce stress, sleep disturbance, and depression.
Health
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

Why employees with chronic pain feel shame-and how they can break free

Chronic pain affects 23% of U.S. adults, impacting productivity and costing the economy $722 billion annually.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

'I'm in remission for the first time due to new cancer drug'

A woman with multiple sclerosis reached remission from myeloma after surpassing her prognosis of three to seven years, thanks to a new drug.
#cancer
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 week ago
Cancer

His mother died of cancer, then cancer took his wife. Last year, he faced his own diagnosis | CBC News

fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
Cancer

Stage 4 Melanoma: 'I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2011 and given nine months. I have been in remission since 2016'

Cancer
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 week ago

His mother died of cancer, then cancer took his wife. Last year, he faced his own diagnosis | CBC News

Cancer has profoundly impacted Jason Ellis's life, affecting both his mother and wife, and now he faces his own diagnosis.
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
Cancer

Stage 4 Melanoma: 'I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2011 and given nine months. I have been in remission since 2016'

Cancer
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

If you want to get something done, hire a cancer patient

Cancer patients can and do work during treatment, challenging the stereotype that they are too fragile to maintain employment.
#endometriosis
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Podcaster advocating for endometriosis awareness

A woman from Kenilworth advocates for endometriosis awareness after struggling for diagnosis and facing dismissal from medical professionals.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Podcaster advocating for endometriosis awareness

A woman from Kenilworth advocates for endometriosis awareness after struggling for diagnosis and facing dismissal from medical professionals.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Debating About the Boundary Between Pain and Suffering

Pain and suffering have a complex, interdependent relationship, where suffering can also cause pain, challenging traditional views of pain management.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Invisible Losses of Chronic Illness

Chronic illness often leads to hidden struggles, requiring individuals to grieve losses while pursuing meaning and connection for a better future.
Medicine
fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 weeks ago

I vibe coded an AI tool to help my mom fight stage 4 cancer. It helped us catch errors in her treatment and let her die with dignity.

Pratik Desai developed a tool to assist his mother in navigating Stage 4 duodenal adenocarcinoma using advanced coding and AI technology.
#early-onset-cancer
Cancer
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 weeks ago

What Is It Like to Get Cancer When You're Young?

Cancer is increasingly affecting individuals under 50, impacting their lives and relationships significantly.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Public health

A doctor shares 3 ways women can lower their cancer risk, starting in their teens and 20s

Colon and other cancer rates are rising in people under 50; prevention includes self-knowledge, improved metabolic health, and reduced alcohol consumption.
Cancer
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 weeks ago

What Is It Like to Get Cancer When You're Young?

Cancer is increasingly affecting individuals under 50, impacting their lives and relationships significantly.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Rest and Chronic Illness

Rest is essential for managing chronic illness fatigue, with quality and detachment from stressors being key factors in optimizing its benefits.
Cancer
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Cancer's grim calculus for the young: their insurance status can determine how long they survive | Fortune

Insurance status significantly impacts cancer survival rates among young adults, with private insurance leading to better outcomes than Medicaid or no insurance.
Cancer
fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks ago

I Was Once Given Just Three Years to Live. A Specific Kind of Hope Could Help Cancer Patients Like Me.

A hip injury worsened over a year, leading to an MRI that revealed serious health issues requiring medical attention.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

No-one knows what to expect when you're dying - but hospices helped me

I think everybody worries when they come to the last stages, no one knows what to expect, but these people are wonderful at relaxing you and they help you an awful lot.
Public health
Alternative medicine
fromFortune
1 month ago

12 Alternative Therapies for Chronic Pain | Fortune

Non-drug approaches like acupuncture, massage, meditation, and tai chi are recommended as first-line treatments for chronic pain in older adults, with many patients reducing or eliminating pain medication use.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Beyond Remission: Supporting Oncology Survivorship

Cancer survivorship transforms family relationships into a new, ongoing relational terrain requiring role renegotiation, communication adjustments, and systemic therapeutic support.
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Americans living longer after cancer diagnosis - Harvard Gazette

New findings on cancer survival rates offer hope for the more than 2 million Americans diagnosed each year. Seven out of 10 Americans diagnosed with cancer now survive five years or more, according to the American Cancer Society, a 7 percent increase since the mid-1990s, when the rate stood at 63 percent. The survival rate data - from patients diagnosed with cancer between 2015 and 2021 - showed, significantly, that those with high-mortality cancers and advanced diagnoses had the largest gains.
Public health
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I have stage four cancer there will be no cure, but death isn't necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle

Stage four lung cancer transforms breath into a finite currency, dictating daily life and relationships amidst medical advancements that extend survival.
Health
fromBustle
2 months ago

A Practical Guide To Talking About Migraines When Dating

Dating with migraine requires clear communication, flexible planning, and boundary-setting to manage unpredictable attacks, common social triggers, and associated fatigue or brain fog.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

I woke up from an operation in agony and the pain never went away

It felt like I had a needle through my back, and it was coming out my front, and I couldn't twist past it. Your mental health is affected. You get brain fog, you're tired, you're fatigued. You can't function as a woman and that's every day for 10 years.
Healthcare
#breast-cancer
fromIndependent
2 months ago
Public health

Life after cancer: You become a 'cancer patient' and that can strip you of your identity. It's a nice feeling to be back at work

fromIndependent
2 months ago
Public health

Life after cancer: You become a 'cancer patient' and that can strip you of your identity. It's a nice feeling to be back at work

Alternative medicine
fromAlternative Medicine Magazine
1 month ago

10 Tips for Combining Traditional and Modern Pain Management Techniques

Pain management doctors combine traditional techniques like acupuncture with modern therapies such as PRP and electrotherapy to create more effective, personalized treatment approaches.
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Parents to open 'virtual hospice' after unit shuts

Families of seriously ill children in east London are establishing East London Hospice to provide home-based 'virtual hospice' care after Richard House's closure.
Cancer
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Stop ignoring subtle signs of cancer. A doctor explains when to get medical help.

Early cancer symptoms are often subtle and easily missed, including unexplained fatigue, persistent pain, and digestive changes; persistent symptoms lasting over a week warrant medical evaluation.
Medicine
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

Hospital Workers Are Revealing The Heartbreaking Regrets Patients Had On Their Deathbeds, And Wow

Healthcare workers witness profound deathbed regrets centered on lost relationships, unresolved conflicts, and time wasted on non-essential pursuits rather than loved ones.
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Families with children battling cancer to have travel costs covered

England will cover travel costs for children and young people with cancer up to age 24, funded by £10 million annually by 2027.
Medicine
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

At 42, With Three Young Kids, I Got a Diagnosis That Would Have Me Dead in a Year. That Was Somehow Just the Beginning.

A 42-year-old man was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer with a 10% five-year survival rate, after initially presenting with jaundice symptoms.
Cancer
fromIndependent
1 month ago

'I survived breast cancer but I lost three siblings to the disease'

A mammogram in 2015 detected breast cancer in Síle Nic Suibhne, whose family history included her sister's previous diagnosis, prompting her participation in BreastCheck screening.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

"It's Unfair!" How Perceived Injustice Affects My Chronic Pain

Perceived injustice from chronic pain significantly worsens depression risk and delays physical recovery, requiring targeted psychotherapy to address these beliefs.
Cancer
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

My Friends Made Shocking Implications When I Was Diagnosed With Aggressive Cancer At 29

The just-world fallacy drives victim-blaming in cancer patients, as people seek to identify preventable causes to protect themselves from similar fates.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

I spent 13 years in pain before doctors finally worked out why

Endometriosis diagnosis is significantly delayed in the UK, with patients waiting an average of nine years and four months, often dismissed as other conditions despite severe symptoms.
Cancer
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

'How my girl, 9, beat kidney failure and cancer'

A nine-year-old girl survived kidney failure, received a transplant, overcame bowel cancer, and was declared cancer-free, defying medical expectations at each stage.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Married couple share same cancer diagnosis

A married couple were both incidentally diagnosed with left-kidney tumours and underwent robotic removal by the same surgeon at East Kent University Hospital.
Cancer
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How to Help Friends Dealing With Cancer

Show up with active listening, avoid unsolicited advice, and never dismiss cancer patients' experiences with false reassurance.
Medicine
fromBustle
2 months ago

Why Even Supportive Partners Can Struggle To Understand Migraines

Migraines are complex, multi-day neurological disorders whose invisible symptoms complicate understanding, support, and communication within intimate relationships.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Fibromyalgia, Pain, and Substance Use Disorders

Fibromyalgia's abnormal pain processing and shared brain pathways with addiction create vulnerability to substance use disorders, with approximately 40% of chronic pain patients meeting SUD criteria.
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A space of their own': how cancer centres designed by top architects bring hope to patients

Maggie's Centres provide compassionate, architecturally designed spaces within hospitals where cancer patients can maintain joy and connection to life during treatment.
Cancer
fromNews Center
2 months ago

Combination Treatment May Slow Disease Progression in Advanced Sarcoma - News Center

Cabozantinib plus temozolomide, given orally, showed potential to slow progression of advanced leiomyosarcoma and merits further clinical evaluation.
Medicine
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Cancer patients should meditate twice a day, scientist says

Chronic psychological stress disrupts cortisol rhythms in cancer patients, promoting tumor aggressiveness, metastasis, and poorer treatment response; stress-reduction practices can help.
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

This is how we do it: His cancer diagnosis hit the reset button we've built up quite the collection of toys'

Prostate cancer surgery forced open communication about intimacy, transforming a long marriage's sexual relationship into more frequent, satisfying encounters through honest dialogue and planning.
Medicine
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Trigeminal neuralgia: Unimaginable pain strikes without warning. It's like touching an electric fence to the power of 10

Trigeminal neuralgia is a rare, intensely painful facial nerve condition often called the 'suicide disease' and can take months to diagnose.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

'Weight-loss jab helped me find my cancer'

The cancer was fastacting, and if I'd left it even six months, the outcome could have been much worse,
Medicine
fromMedscape
2 months ago

Is Assisted Death Always Peaceful? We Simply Don't Know

For decades, the gold standard for the coma-induction phase of euthanasia was thiopental. It was swift, reliable, and highly concentrated and rapidly induced a deep coma. In 2011, however, the European Union banned the export of drugs used for capital punishment, including thiopental. In the wake of the ban, manufacturers withdrew or tightly controlled supplies to avoid association with executions, making the drug increasingly difficult to obtain. "Thiopental is very difficult to get now," Horikx said.
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Medicine
fromScary Mommy
1 month ago

New Study Sheds Light On Why Women Experience More Chronic Pain Than Men

Men's higher testosterone levels enable more efficient immune system pain suppression through increased interleukin-10 production, explaining why women experience prolonged chronic pain more frequently than men.
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