side effects

For many cancer patients, finding ways to manage the side effects of chemotherapy, radiation and hormonal treatments is a great challenge. Most patients do not want to take more drugs and are looking for safe, health...

Image via Wikipedia From one of my patients: I was diagnosed with stage IIIc ovarian cancer.  After the initial shock, I got busy putting together an amazing team of practitioners to get me through this...

Cancer is stressful every step of the way, from diagnosis, through treatment, and as a survivor worried about recurrence. Stress of all types damages our immune system and makes us more vulnerable to infections and...

Acupuncture can prevent radiation-induced chronic dry mouth, study finds When given alongside radiation therapy for head and neck cancer, acupuncture has shown for the first time to reduce the debilitating side effect of xerostomia (dry mouth),...

“Chemo Brain is not “all in your mind” It’s real.  New Research confirms that the brain is permanently damaged by chemotherapy.  After breast cancer treatment women experience many side effects including ongoing  problems with attention,...

Cancer treatment with chemotherapy results in many unwanted side effects.  Acupuncture is a powerful therapy for managing chemotherapy side effects. One of the most common chemotherapy side effects is suppression of the bone marrow which...

Inflammation is common to cancer and contributes to one of the most common complaints of cancer patients and cancer survivors, Cancer Fatigue, a distressing and persistent sense of physical and emotional tiredness as well as reduced mental...

Cancer treatment with chemotherapy  can overburden the liver with toxicity and leads to the side effect of nausea. Milk thistle is used to support normal liver function and normal inflammation function. Watch my Smart Tip...

If you are a cancer patient you certainly don’t expect to die from a blood clot. You usually expect to die from the cancer itself. Cancer patients have a seven times higher risk of complications from...

Many patients undergoing cancer treatment will experience chemotherapy side effects. Common side effects include mouth sores, diarrhea and constipation.  As chemotherapy treatments target fast growing cancer cells, they also target fast growing healthy cells such...

Chemotherapy cancer treatment  has many side effects. One of the most common is painful mouth sores which can make it difficult to eat, drink and swallow.  Here is a Smart Tip about a simple and...

Chemotherapy Fatigue is real All patients receiving chemotherapy suffer toxic side effects. The most common complaint is chemotherapy related fatigue. A recent study found that that Stage 2 and Stage 3 breast cancer patients undergoing...