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Health Care? Daughters Know All About It

By Roni Caryn Rabin — 2017

The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention. But some health care analysts are beginning to sound the alarm about the challenges women face as caregivers — not just for children but for aging parents — often while holding full-time jobs.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan

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My Cancer Journey—Hate & Anger

Here is video 4/5 talking about the emotion of Hate and Anger, two emotions that can lead you to a dark place. However I had to go through that darkness before I got to acceptance

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Tips for Working through the Emotions of Cancer

Going through cancer treatment can be an emotional roller coaster. Psychiatric Oncologist Dr. Wendy Baer gives some tips to keep you moving forward.

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Workplace Challenges after a Cancer Diagnosis

Courtland sits down with Maimah Karmo, founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. In this interview, they discuss the challenges that occur in the workplace after a cancer diagnosis and what an employer can do to help.

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Cancer and Work—Working after a Cancer Diagnosis

Sherri shares her story of returning to work after a cancer diagnosis

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How to Say to Your Employer that You Have Cancer

This guide will give you helpful instructions to ensure you get good at coping with cancer.

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Moving Past the Cancer Stigma at Work

A common concern of cancer patients and survivors working through treatment or returning to work after treatment is the fear of becoming known as the “cancer girl” or “cancer boy” in the office.

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Survivors Share Their Work & Cancer Experiences

You're not alone! Cancer and Careers is here to provide working people with cancer the support, coaching, advice and resources you'll need as you fight cancer. We offer career coaching/counseling, personal stories from other survivors, legal advice and so much more.

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Balancing Work & Cancer: Newly Diagnosed: Getting Started

Receiving a diagnosis can be overwhelming and the considerations can be numerous. What are the next steps? Getting yourself organized and having a plan can help create a better sense of control over the situation.

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