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Cancer Treatment Side Effect: Involuntary Weight Loss

By Cynthia DeMarco

Involuntary weight loss is a serious side effect of cancer and its treatment for many patients.

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Your Secret Weapon During Cancer Treatment? Exercise!

Don't stop moving. Research confirms that exercising can help you not just survive but thrive during and after cancer.

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Mayo Clinic Staff
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A New Monologue for Eve Ensler, Re-enacting Life with Cancer

If any feminist walks the walk, it's author, actress and activist Eve Ensler, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2009, Ensler went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help victims of rape and torture create a sanctuary called City of Joy. That's when her own life got upended.

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Jeff Lunden
2018
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Is Unexplained Weight Loss a Sign of Cancer?

Many people associate unexplained weight loss with cancer. Though unintentional weight loss can be a warning sign of cancer, there are other reasons for unexplained weight loss as well.

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Adrienne Santos-Longhurst
2019
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Cultivating Gratitude and Hope During Cancer Treatment

Gratitude is a conscious decision that allows us to gain perspective by viewing a situation through an alternate lens. Cultivating gratitude can help those affected by cancer cope.

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Brianna Garrison, Sarah Hines
2014
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The Fear of Being a Burden

Accepting help from others when you have a cancer diagnosis isn’t a sign of weakness.

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Hester Hill Schnipper
2021
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What Cancer Has Taught Me About Fear

Cancer patients deal daily with dread stirred by organisms produced by the body they attack.

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Susan Gubar
2020
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Living with Mortality: Life Goes On

Understanding the patterns of reaction to a prolonged illness with perhaps years of remission and a significant chance of being cured will help you put your emotional survival in focus while your doctor concentrates on your physical survival.

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Malin Dollinger, Bernard Dubrow
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Coping wth Fear of Recurrence

After treatment ends, one of the most common concerns survivors have is that the cancer will come back. The fear of recurrence is very real and entirely normal. Although you cannot control whether the cancer returns, you can control how much the fear of recurrence affects your life.

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Cancer.Net Editorial Board
2019
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The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
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Experiences with Cancer, Captured in Works of Art

The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.

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Susan Gubar
2020
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