Cancer Health Summer 2022
Cancer Health Summer 2022
In every issue, you’ll find cutting-edge health information and the hottest topics of interest to people with cancer and their loved ones.
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Features
Second Acts
After treatment for multiple myeloma, Bryon Daily pays it forward to other African Americans, who are at higher risk for this cancer.
Cancer Health 25: Quality of Life
These remarkable individuals are helping people affected by cancer live their best lives.
Editor’s Letter
A New Life
It’s a different life—cancer changes you—but it can be a good one.
Care and Treatment
Natural Killer Cells Show Promise
“We were favorably surprised by the quality of tumor responses in patients."
Women Are More Prone to Side Effects
Women were at greater risk than men for symptomatic adverse events and hematologic events.
Light Therapy for Better Sleep
After receiving light therapy for two weeks, women exposed to bright light reported a significant decrease in fatigue and sleep disturbances
Antihistamines and Immunotherapy
Allergy meds were linked to longer survival among cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
News
Breast Cancer Survivor Heart Risk
Results showed that women who had received anthracyclines and/or Herceptin had a high risk for heart failure.
Sit Less, Move More
Sitting more than eight hours a day more than doubled the risk for cancer-related death compared with sitting less than four hours a day.
Beyond Isolation
With omicron surging in February, Suleika Jaouad’s husband Jon Batiste couldn’t be with her in the hospital.
Taste Rescue
“The good news? Once chemo is over, your taste buds usually go back to normal."
Fact Finder
A team at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health summarizes the best evidence.
Voices
Learning From Wit
Erin Cronican is an actress, singer, director and producer in New York City. She has Stage IV metastatic breast cancer.
Basics
COVID Protection
Extra vaccine doses, monoclonal antibodies and antivirals can help prevent severe illness.
Diary
A Lung Cancer Diary
An Army veteran, retired firefighter and farmer, Jeff Meckstroth, 65, lives in Ohio. He has Stage IV metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.
Living With Cancer
Telling You for the Last Time
Adam Hayden, 39, is a writer and speaker living with brain cancer. He lives with his wife and three sons in Indianapolis.
Your Team
Yoga Therapist
Columbia University Irving Medical Center mind-body specialist Leigh Leibel, MSc, coedited Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum.
Good Stuff
A Healing Summer
T-shirts you can wear anywhere, a gift for guys and natural inspirations for everyone
Solutions
Improving Muscle Strength
These gentle exercises can help you become stronger and more flexible.
Resources
Pancreatic Cancer
These organizations provide latest treatment options, emotional support for patients and caregivers, access to care and financial support.
Survey
Are You Prepared?
Do you have an emergency plan?
Digital Edition
Cancer Health Summer 2022
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