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- RC262.A5.1 - The Leap of Faith into the Darkness
Alexandra Andrews, Karen Bailey, Allan Grossman, Martha Hale, Wendy Sheridan - There are no road maps for our cancer treatment. There are no studies, no trials, just leaps of faith into the darkness.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/leap.html
Link added 2006-06-30; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.A5.2 - Cancer List Guidelines and Tips
Alexandra Andrews and Wendy Sheridan - A cancer diagnosis creates a critical crossroad in life. The knowledge that you are not alone can help relieve some of the fear and anxiety the diagnosis can bring. E-mail lists are a wonderful way to make contact with others on a similar journey, to exchange information, provide support and much more.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/list.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.A480.1 - UCSF Ida and Joseph Friend Cancer Resource Center
Paul Asfour, Volunteer Program Manager and Patient Educator -
Information, Emotional, and Lifestyle Support care is profoundly important. At the UCSF Ida and Joseph Friend Cancer Resource Center, we offer imagery and guided meditation, yoga, dance, restorative movement, Pilates-based exercise, support groups, a premiere peer-support program, free educational pamphlets, books and recordings, monthly topical seminars, medical preparation planning and regular nutrition classes. Collaborative programs include Smoking Cessation, Art for Recovery, Prepare for Surgery, and medical research services with professional medical librarians.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/Survivor/ucsfresource.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.A482.1 - Realize What Is Important
Darrel Ansbacher - The cure will be worth it - no gamble too great to get rid of a fatal disease. I do not deserve death yet I have paid the price. I have bought time. I deserve life.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/important.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.B123.1 - Body Image and Cancer
Kyla Brooke, LMFT, CMT - Your body, along with your body image, can be powerful resources for your healing process. Body image is how you perceive your body and your physical appearance. This is a changing event; a snapshot in time. It is your own mental picture of yourself.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/bodyimage.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.B140.1 - Why Write?
Madeline Bassnett - Why write, gives you time to yourself, gives you nurturing and quiet, helps in exploring inner nature during illness
http://www.cancerlynx.com/writing.html
Link added 2008-11-03; - RC262.B333.1 - To Have Ever Lived at All!
Diane Behar - Life is a gift. It is a miracle...These powerful, positive words were the starting point of my will to live - And then you will be fine.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/lived.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.B435.1 - I Don't Have Time Not to Live
Carol Buck - There is a great connection between the mind and the body...I don't have time not to live. I live a very busy life, both in life and in enjoyment.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/time.html
Link added 2007-07-07; - RC262.B483.1 - A Cup of Breath
Ellie Bine - People need a tangible reason to continue to struggle. If they do not have one, they had better find one, even if it is the refusal to be victimized by their misfortune. I think anyone who sets their mind to it can do anything if they try hard enough.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/cup.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.C484.1 - In Touch with My Dream
Alan J. Cooper, MD - The Native American belief that when a man loses his dream, he begins to die. Illness for me has been a gift and a springboard into new life. I have been able to resurrect hope and fun and to rediscover the value of leisure and laughter.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/dream.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.C484.2 - In Touch with My Dream
Alan J. Cooper, MD - The Native American belief that when a man loses his dream, he begins to die. Illness for me has been a gift and a springboard into new life. I have been able to resurrect hope and fun and to rediscover the value of leisure and laughter.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/dream.html
Link added 2008-10-30;
- RC262.D285.1 - The Why for Writing Mind, Body, and Soul; A Guide to Living with Cancer
Nancy Hassett Dahm -
As a nurse, I have cared for many hundreds of terminally ill cancer patients. I have seen what living with cancer can do to a patient and family, both in good ways and more often, not so good ways.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/whybook.html
Link added 2008-11-03; reviewed 2008-12-10 - RC262.E432.1 - Expedition Inspiration
Laura Evans -
I feel as if I have been given a special gift - the gift of life - and I don't want to squander it.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/expedition.html
Link added 2007-07-07 - RC262.E538.1 - Why Is There So Much Cancer
David Elliot - We are dying of cancer at an alarming rate. Gaia has inbuilt systems to maintain health. We are dependant on the survival or our communities, our societies and our planet.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/gaiacancer.html Link added 2008-10-30; - RC262.F136.1 - The "C" Word
Lola Ferris - Once they turned their faces to the wall the shh and the hush the unspoken word they were our grandmothers our mothers hopeless helpless
http://www.cancerlynx.com/c-word.html Link added 2006-05-23; reviewed 2008-10-30 - RC262.F486.1 - I Live a Disease-Threatening Life
Rick Fields - If you go into a battle fearlessly accepting the possibility of death and almost embracing it, you have a much better chance of fighting well, and in fact of winning. The spiritual path of Medicine Buddha, Buddhist training and study teach the fear of our own death is like the fear of our own birth or the fear of our own life.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/buddhist.html
Link added 2009-09-19
- RC262.G7.1 - Fixing Cancer
Allan Grossman - The role of primary caregiver to a cancer patient can at times be as stressful as having cancer yourself
http://www.cancerlynx.com/fixingcancer.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-24 -
RC262.G294.2 - Coping Strategies ~ Name That Cancer
Velvet Girling -
Everything I did would be based on cancer, no overnight miracle here. I need to live with my cancer - alert to any new signs or symptoms but not be ruled by it.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/cancername.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 -
RC262.G230.1 - Redefining Failure: A Nurse's View
Teresa T. Goodell, RN, MSN, CCRN, CS -
Many cancer patients have heard the failure word, and many use it to describe their treatment history, as if it were a fact of their illness, as if it were a test.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/failure.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.G288.1-To Call Forth That Spark
Kathleen Grant, MD - Hope is part of that empowerment that says, I have a right to wish for more life,
more health, more time to accomplish a goal.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/spark.html
Link added 2007-07-07; reviewed 2008-09-19 - RC262.G288.2 -To Call Forth That Spark
Kathleen Grant, MD -
Hope is part of that empowerment that says, I have a right to wish for more life, more health, more time to accomplish a goal
http://www.cancerlynx.com/spark.html
Link added 2007-07-07 - RC262.G416.1 - The Stanford Cancer Concierge Program
Holly Gautier, RN, Cancer Concierge Services, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center - The Cancer Concierge Services aspires to build a new model of care that addresses the needs of each individual and his or her support system, to assist each person through diagnosis, treatment program, recovery process, and survival. It is designed to integrate all aspects of healing: strengthening the body, educating the mind, and fostering hope and courage and complement the wide array of traditional cancer treatments.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/Survivor/concierge.html
Link added 2007-12-12; reviewed 2008-08-02 - RC262.G487.1 - A Buddy and a Group
Jack D. Gordon, MD - There is the will to live when you are fighting for your life, and there are survival factors that cannot be measured, such as pure, dumb luck.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/buddy.html
Link added 2008-09-19
- RC262.J488.1 - Recharging My Batteries
Joanna - This illness has had a liberating effect on me. It has forced me to reevaluate my priorities. I avoid negative people. I am learning to take care of myself. I am also training myself to enjoy each day thoroughly and be thankful for it.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/batteries.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.I433.1 - Each Day Really Is a Miracle
Father Isaacs - The will to live, is awakened by looking through a new set of eyes at what you have been doing and getting a new perspective on your life.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/miracle.html
Link added 2007-07-07 - RC262.K9.1 - Overcoming Depression
Andrew W. Kneier PhD -
A significant percentage of cancer patients have episodes of depression. When this happens, your entire experience with cancer is more difficult; your resilience is weakened, and overall adjustment can be hampered. Depression can also undermine your will to live and compromise the courage, fortitude, and determination that you need to face cancer and to endure the necessary medical treatments.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/depression.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 -
RC262.K9.2 - Emotional Support
Andrew W. Kneier PhD -
The term emotional support is commonly used when talking about the needs of cancer patients. However, this concept means different things to different people.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/emotional.html
Link added 2006-11-01; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.K9.3 - Cancer - Coping and Hope
Andrew Kneier, PhD, Diane Behar, Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD - Attitudes and behaviors are used used to cope with stress, maintain emotional well-being and hope. Patients waiting for appointments, or test results, from initial diagnosis, surgery, a biopsy, mammogram. treatment, checkups face the difficult aspect of the open-ended uncertainty of not knowing what is happening inside the body. When your spouse has cancer, the illness is happening to both of you. You are sharing many of same emotions and concerns.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/cope.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.K9.4 - Coping with Cancer: 10 Steps Towards Emotional Well-Being
Andrew Kneier, PhD, Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA, and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD - 10 coping strategies for patients to face cancer. Facing the Reality of Your Illness, Maintaining Hope and Optimism, Proportion and Balance, Expressing Your Emotions, Reaching Out for Support, Adopting a Participatory Stance, Finding a Positive Meaning, Spirituality, Faith and Prayer, Coming to Terms with Mortality
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/10steps.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.K9.5 - Coping with Cancer: 10 Steps Towards Emotional Well-Being
Andrew Kneier, PhD, Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA, and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD - 10 coping strategies for patients to face cancer. Facing the Reality of Your Illness, Maintaining Hope and Optimism, Proportion and Balance, Expressing Your Emotions, Reaching Out for Support, Adopting a Participatory Stance, Finding a Positive Meaning, Spirituality, Faith and Prayer, Coming to Terms with Mortality
http://www.cancerlynx.com/10steps.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-19 -
RC262.K9.6 - When Your Spouse Has Cancer
Andrew W, Kneier, PhD - Your spouse has cancer, the illness is really happening to both of you. You are sharing many of same emotions and concerns.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/spouse.html
Link added 2006-08-29; reviewed 2008-10-30 - RC262.K213.1 - Write For Life
Sheppard B. Kominars, PhD - Write For Life is a sequence of journal-writing experiences in which individuals who participate can open themselves to exploring how they live their daily lives, participating more fully in the experience, and healing themselves with their own wisdom. inner nature during illness
http://www.cancerlynx.com/write.html
Link added 2008-12-05; - RC262.L127.1 - Dying Guide Line for Care Givers
Lee Law - Here is a guide line, for those who are dying and what we as care givers and supporters need be aware
http://www.cancerlynx.com/dying.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 -
RC262.L127.2 - Care Giving - Advice by Lee Law
Lee Law - Caregivers I see the journey broken down into three parts where the care giver is concerned
http://www.cancerlynx.com/caregiving.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-24
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