How I (Try to) Avoid Advocacy Burnout
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Advocate Anita Mitchell shares her advocacy story and 5 ways she tries to avoid advocacy burnout.
Cancer prevention
5 Myths About Cancer and Food, Explained by Dietitians
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Lots of myths surround what you can and cannot eat if you have cancer. In this podcast, 2 dietitians separate fact from fiction.
Top 5 Food Safety Tips to Get Your Summer Started
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Memorial Day signals the start of summer. Make sure you don’t invite bacteria to your cookouts!
Healthy Living After Cancer
As cancer treatment ends, it is important to gather information about how to maintain and improve your health. Your cancer care team can help you do this. Research shows that making lifestyle changes during and after cancer treatment can help prevent a recurrence or a second cancer. Healthy living can also prevent or control other health problems, including:
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Excess weight
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Heart problems, such as congestive heart failure
Spotlight On: Oncology Dietitians
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Proper nutrition is essential for living well during and after cancer treatment. To get an inside look at how nutrition and oncology work together in cancer care, Cancer.Net talked with two oncology dietitians.
Cáncer de pulmón de células no pequeñas - Detección
EN ESTA PÁGINA: encontrará más información sobre la detección de este tipo de cáncer de pulmón de células pequeñas (NSCLC). También se le informará acerca de los riesgos y beneficios de la detección. Use el menú para ver otras páginas.
Preventing Food Poisoning During and After Treatment
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Cancer and cancer treatments often weaken the immune system, making it harder for the body to protect itself from foodborne illness. So how can you stay food safe? This infographic produced by Cancer.Net and the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service can help.
Lung Cancer - Small Cell - Coping with Treatment
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn more about coping with the physical, emotional, social, and financial effects of cancer and its treatment. Use the menu to see other pages.
Every cancer treatment can cause side effects or changes to your body and how you feel. For many reasons, people do not experience the same side effects even when they are given the same treatment for the same type of cancer. This can make it hard to predict how you will feel during treatment.
Lung Cancer - Small Cell - About Clinical Trials
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn more about clinical trials, which are the main way that new medical approaches are studied to see how well they work. Use the menu to see other pages.
What are clinical trials?
Doctors and scientists are always looking for better ways to care for people with SCLC. To make scientific advances, doctors create research studies involving volunteers, called clinical trials. Every drug that is now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was tested in clinical trials.
Lung Cancer - Small Cell - Risk Factors and Prevention
Risk Factors and Prevention
ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about the factors that increase the chance of developing small cell lung cancer. Use the menu to see other pages.
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