Although many patients with cancer are concerned about leaving their house during the COVID-19 pandemic, a board-certified psychiatrist highlights that some of his patients with cancer have reported a reduction in their anxieties during the pandemic.
May marks Mental Health Awareness month, a crucial part of the healing required for patients on their cancer journey.
Hope is a tenuous thing, but it is important to foster hope during the cancer journey even when the statistic don't feel hopeful.
All of us could choose to practice gratitude instead of judgment during these challenging times.
“In 16 seconds, we can really bring our consciousness to the present moment.”
Navigating cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic means facing extra concerns.
Surviving cancer teaches us emotional resilience, making even a frightening pandemic something we can decide we can navigate.
The new normal is HARD and SCARY, even for a cancer fighter who's become all too familiar with those conditions over the years.
Part of the prognosis is often what the patient brings to it, the journey ahead of them that only they can travel.
During hard times, we must hold on to what we know well.
How can we relax and move forward when cancer and COVID-19 take up so much of our day?
As quarantine and social distancing wears on, one cancer survivor muses on the little things that have gone missing.
A three-year lung cancer survivor discusses the shock of her diagnosis, and the positivity that ensued in her everyday life.
Dealing with isolation is not new for widows and widowers who lost their spouses to cancer.
During cancer it's easy to let friends in the "outside world" fall to the wayside, but it's sometimes possible, and helpful, to foster those relationships.
Even with an injured trust in the world, it's important to remember the lessons that help us move through cancer and other life traumas amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thrivership and resilience are what we can gain from adversity and help us cope with change.
The adolescent and young adult cancer community is one that faces life-changing challenges at an age where this type of challenge is not expected, and it is now compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is a lifeline for AYA patients to not only cope, but thrive.
Cancer treatment has taught many survivors how to combat infection, a useful skill to adjusting life amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has cut out many face-to-face interactions, and for patients with cancer that can also mean a loss of connection to expert advice. But the team behind the Belong.Life app is looking to bridge the gap patients face during social distancing.
Spring is still here, and the warmer weather can help you handle your cancer and COVID-19 related anxieties.
A guy with breast cancer has a simple suggestion for coping with stress.
For once, I'm noticing a new role of cancer in my life as the survival skills I've picked up are helping me persevere through a global pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of new challenges to patients with cancer, and one of them is reliving the isolation and anxiety that cancer brings.
A survivor talks about leaving the gate open and racing out of it when diagnosed with cancer.
Patient advocacy group Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered addressed individuals with hereditary cancer syndromes to offer suggestions for decreasing anxiety and fear during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Practicing kindness can help survivors, patients and everyone else get through this pandemic together.