Blog Topic: Coping with cancer
Many people think that the end of cancer treatment means the cancer struggle is over, but that is not always the case. Lymphoedema is an unwelcome side effect of cancer surgery and/or radiation treatment.
Personalised chemotherapy dosing can improve patient outcomes. You play an important part in creating a cancer free future. This year, with your help, more than $10 million has been awarded to 17 new outstanding research projects, investigating new ways to treat cancer.
Two years ago, popular fashion and entertainment reporter Elle Halliwell received life changing news—she was living with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML). Just 48 hours later she received another shock—she was pregnant
Daffodil Day Ambassador Renata Gortan shares her breast cancer experience in her blog, When Life Goes Tits Up. In 2015, at just 32, the popular Daily Telegraph journalist and food reporter was diagnosed with grade three, invasive, HER1 positive breast cancer. Chemotherapy, surgery and radiation followed suit. Two years ago, after Renata completed active treatment, she […]
Thanks to advancements in cancer research, new treatment options and drugs are being tested and developed to improve outcomes for cancer patients. Targeted therapy is a promising drug treatment that attacks specific features of cancer cells, known as molecular targets, to stop the cancer growing and spreading. The development of targeted therapy drugs has led […]
“Did you smoke?” This is probably the most common question that lung cancer patients and survivors are faced with after their diagnosis. And it’s an issue: the stigma attached to a lung cancer diagnosis results in physical, psychological and societal harm that doesn’t get addressed frequently enough. Today, I’m speaking at the Australian Lung Cancer […]
Photo sourced from iStock The adage ‘this too shall pass’ is often used in society when we face tough times but what happens when the challenge doesn’t go away? For many people who have experienced cancer, the chronic condition lymphoedema follows and lingers. It can be debilitating and it’s incurable. What is Lymphoedema? Lymphoedema involves […]
The holiday season can pose many challenges for people who are affected by cancer. Feelings of loneliness, isolation and sadness are common. Cancer Council Information and Support services are available to assist with your concerns and needs. Self-care and expressing your needs: Give yourself permission to get through this period in the best way you […]
Before Angela was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 she considered herself fairly fit and healthy. An early childhood teacher and self-confessed workaholic, the breast cancer diagnosis threw her life into turmoil and her exercise regime went out the door. ENRICH, an exercise and nutrition program recommended by her oncologist, helped Angela get her life […]
My cancer experience In 2013 I was diagnosed with stage four cancer in my tonsils, throat and tongue. It is called oropharyngeal cancer. This diagnosis was a complete shock. I hadn’t smoked or drunk alcohol for over thirty-five years. I never imagined my sore throat, ear ache and two small lumps on my lower neck could be […]