Category Archives: cancer

Practical Ways of Easing the Load.

I believe that both of the instances (referred to in my last blog) of initial reactions and responses, point to a need for all concerned to ensure that what is said and heard (which are by no means always the … Continue reading

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Further Common Issues Needing to be Addressed.

Significant content of this website ‘published’ to date, has focused around those typical and well-documented early reactions and responses to “bad news”. Moreover, we know – sometimes from first hand experience – how even the most ordered and controlled of … Continue reading

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Accentuating the Positive.

You will recall that I concluded my last blog with a question and in the interests of taking things further forward, it might be worthwhile reading that final paragraph again before moving on. My answer to such a question has … Continue reading

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More about treatment and its impact

Continuing directly on from last week’s posting, “relief”, is a likely response, in that the tumour has been removed and as one might say, “Is no longer part of me”. Such feelings at such a time can be both real … Continue reading

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Treatment and its further implications

Having briefly reviewed the treatment options available when dealing with a cancer illness, it is by no means uncommon for another, less frequently articulated but nevertheless, key question to be lurking and requiring an ‘airing’; i.e. “Can it be treated? … Continue reading

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Understanding Fatigue

From time to time throughout the writing and posting of these blogs on anti-cancer treatments and their noxious side effects, reference has been made to the all-too-familiar symptoms of “fatigue”.  I need now to be a little more explicit as … Continue reading

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Anticipatory/Conditioned Side-Effects of Treatment. (Cont’d 2)

Let us imagine that a patient has just been admitted to the Day Ward in order to receive treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent or drug: Adriamycin perhaps, or one of the platinum-based drugs.  As it enters the bloodstream, toxic side-effects … Continue reading

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Anticipatory/Conditioned Side-Effects of Treatment (Cont’d)

Following on from my last blog on this subject matter, it might also further aid our understanding to just briefly take into account something of what we mean when we refer to a “conditioned reflex”.  Actually, the power of association … Continue reading

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Anticipatory/conditioned Side-effects of Treatment

In this particular posting, I want, if I may, to focus for a short time on a problem, which for many people amounts to so much more than just a “temporary physical sensation”.  Sometimes patients who are being treated with … Continue reading

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COPING WITH THE SIDE-EFFECTS OF ANTI-CANCER TREATMENT 4

Let me attempt to sum up the contents of the last three blogs with a reassuring and in every detail true account of what, with a little help and no small measure of imagination, can be achieved. One day, we … Continue reading

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