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5 Steps to Navigate the Cancer Caregiving Journey

By AARP staff — 2019

Information and conversation are key to facing the challenges of care

Read on www.aarp.org

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Types of Complementary Therapies

When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”

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Cancer.net
2021
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Exercise May Help to Ease ‘Chemo Brain’

Women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer who stayed physically active had fewer problems with memory and thinking.

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Gretchen Reynolds
2021
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Cognitive Changes After Cancer Treatment

Some cancers and treatments can result in cognitive changes that affect thinking, learning, processing or remembering information. These changes can affect many aspects of life such as the ability to work or even to do everyday tasks. Find out whether you have an increased risk of cognitive changes.

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Livestrong
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Leukaemia Patient Mistook Cancer for Covid-19

A leukaemia patient is urging people not to assume their symptoms are coronavirus after he mistook his cancer for long Covid.

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BBC News
2021
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The Fog that Follows Chemotherapy

Nearly every chemotherapy patient experiences short-term problems with memory and concentration. But about 15 percent suffer prolonged effects of what is known medically as chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment.

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Jane E. Brody
2009
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How to Lift Your Cancer Brain Fog

Many people with cancer have problems with memory, attention, and thinking. It can start during treatment or after it’s over. You might have heard it called “chemo brain,” but other cancer treatments besides chemotherapy can cause this brain fog, too.

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Stephanie Booth
2020
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When More Sleep Won’t Do It: Tackling Cancer-Related Fatigue

Cancer-related fatigue affects many people, before, during and after treatment. It can have a seriously debilitating impact on lives, but effective interventions have so far proved hard to find.

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Sophie Fessl
2018
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Living with Cancer: ‘My Symptoms Were Dismissed as Stress and Anxiety for a Year—By Then It Was Advanced’

Mary Dawson, 72, has been living with kidney cancer now for more than a decade, which may have been avoided if it was caught earlier

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Claudia Tanner
2020
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Exercise Is the Best Cure for Fatigue Caused by Cancer

The best treatment for the bone-crushing fatigue caused by cancer and its treatment may be the very last one you'd imagine. It's exercise.

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Maggie Fox
2017
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How I Learned to Cope with Cancer-Related Fatigue

Jelle Damhuis is a 2-time cancer survivor who most recently completed treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2018. He is now reintegrating back into the workplace and helping spread the word about cancer-related fatigue to patient groups around the world.

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Jelle Damhuis
2020
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