side effects

Many breast cancer patients suffer mild to severe joint pain as a common side effect of drug treatments that block estrogen. These drugs, primarily aromatase inhibitors, are used in women with breast cancer cells showing hormonal receptors for estrogen...

Although the US Government and the press are downplaying the risk of US citizens to radiation exposures from Japan, the Center for Disease Control is conducting a weekend of training for physicians and public health officials...

Thirty Reasons Why Most Cancer Patients Choose Integrative Cancer Care To be proactive, to take control, to take charge of decisions that affect my care, my health, my experience, my results and outcomes To participate...

Here is an excerpt from a wonderful series of articles on navigating the cancer journey with more support, resources and perspective. Dr. Joseph Nowinski, PhD, cancer psychologist, talks about using complementary therapies (I prefer the term...

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...

“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,...

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),...

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...

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...