Insomnia Coping Strategies
Insomnia, or the inability to fall/stay asleep, can be a side effect of your treatment for cancer. The good news is that there are many options to help insomnia. Insomnia Coping Strategies: Try not to [...]
Necrosis of the Jaw Coping Strategies
Necrosis of the jaw has been reported to occur in some patients receiving bisphophonate therapy. There have been several reports of possible drug interaction between sunitinib (Sutent) and bisphophonates that significantly increases the risk of necrosis [...]
Mouth Sores – Coping Strategies
Mouth sores, or stomatitis as it is referred to in medical textbooks, can develop as a result of cancer treatment. There are many ways to help prevent and reduce the occurrence of mouth sores. How [...]
Increased Tearing – Epiphoria Coping Strategies
Increased tearing, or epiphoria, can be a side effect of your GIST treatment. There are a number of strategies to cope with increased tearing. Keep reading for more information. Here are a few strategies [...]
Hand and Foot Syndrome Coping Strategies
Hand and Foot Syndrome coping strategies. Although targeted cancer therapies are generally considered to have less side effects than traditional chemotherapy, the need to take these drugs for extended time periods (in many cases [...]
What does cancer feel like?
I’ve been struggling to answer that question since I was diagnosed with a rare, malignancy known as gastrointestinal stromal tumor on February 18, 2011. I cannot remember what I am wearing right now without looking [...]
Stivarga Side Effects
Stivarga comes in 40 mg tablets. Once opened, it must be used within 28 days. Stivarga must be stored in the bottle that it comes in, the desiccant must remain in the bottle; keep bottle tightly sealed. Do not store in a daily or weekly pill box.
New Immunotherapy Approach Advances
The new treatment uses T cells, a type of immune cell that are taken from the patient’s body, genetically modified and then reinfused into the patient. These modified T cells are called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. In previous trials with these modified T cells, tumor responses have been modest and they did not persist for long enough after being re-introduced into the patient. Using this second generation CAR T cell, Dr. Carl June and his colleagues at Penn obtained long-lasting persistence once the cells were re-introduced.
Cancer Caregiving Tips By Janeen
Caring for someone suffering from an illness is hard, there's no other way to put it. Most of the time it gets easier but in the beginning right after a surgery, it can be very emotionally draining and frightening. Caring for someone you love is even more so as there is an emotional connection, a deep desire to alleviate the pain and suffering we see in the eyes of the person whose bedside we are hovering over.
Ten Tips For Cancer Caregivers
Caring for someone suffering from an illness is hard, there’s no other way to put it. Most of the time it gets easier but in the beginning right after a surgery, it can be very emotionally draining and frightening. Caring for someone you love is even more so as there is an emotional connection, a deep desire to alleviate the pain and suffering we see in the eyes of the person whose bedside we are hovering over.