Category: Patient

• The Ebbs and Flows of Sexuality After Having Cancer

  Patient Advocate Eve Mart talks about how cancer affected her sexuality and the strategies she used to maintain a positive physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

• Additional Healing Methods to Fight Cancer: Your Local Community Center

  Patient Advocate Cynthia Rigali Lund talks about her coping strategies and relaxation methods during her battle with ovarian cancer.

• There’s Nothing Like The New Year To Take Charge Of Your Health

  Medical Professional Tiana Adams, PC-C, MBA, talks about the importance of mammograms and encourages readers to consider them as a part of their routine check-up.

• So My DNA Is Messed Up…What Do I Do Next?

  Patient Advocate and breast cancer survivor Theresa Smith shares her emotional experience on receiving her diagnosis and the conversations had and support received from her family and friends.

• How Can You Use Social Media To Find Support And Resources

  Ambry Genetics Digital Marketing Manager Aaron Schmidt discusses how social media can help patients and their families find support and resources during their cancer journey with five tips.

• Overcoming My Death Anxiety Related To Lynch Syndrome

  Advocate Georgia Hurst talks about how her Lynch syndrome diagnosis caused her to have death anxiety, recollects about her family’s untimely mortality due to the same diagnosis and how she has come to terms with it.

• Let’s Not Forget The Cancer Caregivers

  Advocate and male breast cancer survivor Bill Rotter talks about how male breast cancer diagnosis changed not only his life, but also his wife’s life, who was also his caregiver.

• You’re Not To Blame

  Registered Nurse Practitioner Tameron Harvell, RN, MSN, CFNP-BC, talks about survivor’s guilt and the feelings she felt when she learned she had no genetic mutation.

• Not Just For the Holidays: Thoughtful Gifts for Breast Cancer Patients

  Patient Advocate Eve Mart discusses her battle with breast cancer and includes a list of holiday gift donation ideas.

• Here’s To Our Families

  Gastroenterologist Dennis J. Ahnen, MD, focuses on how a discussion of cancer family history can decrease cancer risk for individuals and their families from a medical perspective.