CLICK HERE to open the book in a new window or read it below — Chapter 14 “Check List”… Continue reading “Patient’s Checklist”
Patient’s Checklist
Accessing Treatment Information – PDQ
Cancer is the most curable of all chronic diseases!
There is no type of cancer for which there is no treatment!
There is no cancer from which someone has not been cured.
But…cancer is an extremely complex disease. There are over 200 different kinds of cancer. Each one is treated in its own particular way Continue reading “Accessing Treatment Information – PDQ”
Questions to Ask Your Doctors
The more involved you are the better care you will receive. You can also ask important questions of your caregivers, family and friends to help determine the roles they can best fill for you throughout your cancer journey. Continue reading “Questions to Ask Your Doctors”
Self Help Exercises
An American Health Magazine article states,
How you feel about yourself affects your physical well-being. Researchers now recognize that a sense of purpose, a positive outlook and the feeling of being in control of one’s life may help prevent illness, from cancer to the common cold. Continue reading “Self Help Exercises”
Reducing Medical Errors in Cancer
On May 7, 2001 on ABC National News Peter Jennings stated, “In cancer, a second opinion should be more than just an option.” The following evening his report went in depth reviewing the study at Johns-Hopkins about the alarming figures of individuals treated with surgery or radiation for prostate cancer who did not have any cancer and that one in 5 cases of all cancers wrongly diagnosed Continue reading “Reducing Medical Errors in Cancer”