Read our posts about Cancer

20Feb

How to Be a Mother When You Have Lost Your Own

Genevieve Fox

cancer, childhood, family, grief, mother, motherhood, parenting

Relationships

The youngest of three, journalist Genevieve Fox was an orphan from the age of nine. Here she reflects on learning to mother when she had her own children
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02Feb

The Psychology of Cancer: The Emotional Spectrum of Remission

AXA PPP

cancer, emotions, illness

Body

Sunday is International Cancer Day. But how do people who have won remission from cancer deal with their changed lives?
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07Aug

Should We Welcome Death in Our Lives?

Frank Ostaseski

bereavement, cancer, death, illness, mindfulness, mortality, self, society

Soul

A more peaceful relationship with our own mortality has the potential to improve our daily lives, says author Frank Ostaseski
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21Jun

My Son Made a Podcast About My Brain Cancer

Jessica Morris

brain, cancer, family, illness, mother

Relationships

Expatriate and mother of three Jessica Morris has a brain tumour, now the subject of her son's college-project podcast. How does hearing it make her feel?
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15May

How to Stop Illness Killing Your Appetite

Andréa Childs

cancer, health, illness, nutrition, recipe, stress, wellbeing

Body

Anyone with a chronic or debillitating illness will know it can seriously affect appetite. A new website nourishbyjaneclarke has helpful advice and recipes
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26Apr

Processing Feelings of Loss after a Cancer Diagnosis

Mariana Panayides

cancer, illness, therapy, trauma

Therapists

Competing feelings of shock, denial and wanting to protect loved ones from seeing your anxiety are all common reactions to a cancer diagnosis says therapist Mariana Panayides
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05Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2017: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Louise Chunn

books, cancer, Wellcomebookprize

Soul

When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction book shortlisted in the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi is transformed into a patient with his diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer
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21Mar

The Link between Chronic Illness and Depression

Kate Hardenberg

body, cancer, chronicpain, HIV, illness, therapy

Therapists

Depression is a very common side effect of chronic illness writes therapist Kate Hardenberg. She says it can be useful to understand the links
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10Mar

What I Learned from Having Cancer

Charlotte Crowl

cancer, complementaryhealth, illness

Body

Charlotte Crowl looks back on the mental and physical experience of having cancer in her teens, the subject of her book Cancer: The Hidden Truth
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04Feb

Businesses not Supporting Those Affected by Cancer

AXA PPP

cancer, illness, work

Work

On World Cancer Day we ask: are employers doing enough to support their staff members affected by cancer?
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