Cancer may change the way you feel about your body and what feels good to you. But with a combination of self-reflection, physical intervention, communication, and patience, you can rebuild your intimacy. After a breast cancer diagnosis, the last thing you’re likely thinking about is sex. Instead, you’re probably thinking about your treatment costs, upcoming …
The AMA has joined a growing push for better welfare for those with incapacitating but ‘unstabilised’ conditions such as cancer or poor mental health Since he was diagnosed with cancer in the middle of the year, Tim Hurley has been relying on the support of family and friends to get him to hospital five times …
A criminal complaint was filed Monday charging a Gilroy woman with wire fraud to secure donations from individuals for cancer treatments she never needed or received, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Between October 2012 and February 2016, Amanda Riley falsely claimed to have Hodgkin’s lymphoma and that she was receiving treatments at various hospitals …
Just imagine scrolling Facebook one day and making the shocking discovery that your brother has cancer. He never mentioned a thing to you. But now he’s posting requests for donations to cover his medical costs? And this is how you find out? The sister picked up the phone and called her brother. Unfortunately, others just …
Improving access to screening can reduce racial disparities and save lives Prostate cancer remains the second highest cancer-related cause of death in men in the U.S., and there has been a worrisome trend of rising metastatic disease at diagnosis. These facts make it increasingly important that the urological community and the patients we serve turn our attention …
A mother and cancer caregiver expresses her frustration over the lack of breast cancer screening in young women and explains how catching cancer early saved her daughter’s life. I remember sitting in my doctor’s office after I returned from almost a year supporting Adrienne, my daughter, during breast cancer treatment and her asking me how …
Student nurse Keisha Chadwick, 28, planned to go back to finishing her course just three weeks after giving birth but she was diagnosed with breast cancer when her daughter Milana was seven weeks old A student nurse gave birth to her daughter while battling through sepsis and Covid only to be diagnosed with breast cancer weeks later. …
U.S. hospital groups, start-ups, and nonprofits have been impatient for years of doing nothing about the cost of prescription drugs in Washington to combat stubborn high prices and a persistent shortage of drugs. I started making my own medicine. Efforts are at various stages, but some have already been administered in millions of doses before …
Thanks to kindhearted Sunday People and Mirror.co.uk readers, Nathaniel Nabena is now relaxing at home with his family at having been discharged from Great Ormond Street Hospital Brave Nathaniel Nabena is delighted after ringing a bell in a moving hospital ritual to declare: “I’m cancer-free!” Staff cheered him in the incredible moment, which came after …
Pain experienced by cancer survivors appeared associated with adverse employment and financial outcomes, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology. Better evaluation of pain severity among cancer survivors and strategies to assist with employment and financial plans may enhance patient-centered care, researchers noted. “There has been increased recognition of the importance of financial hardship among cancer survivors, …