Chemo

This condition exhibits symptoms such as forgetfulness, memory loss, and a foggy brain. Foggy brain is the inability to think of the right thought or process at the right time.

Chemo brain is not just in your head, it is a real consequence of chemotherapy. It is usually temporary, and there are things you can do to decrease the impact it has on your life.

The moral of this story? Do the research and listen to your gut instinct. If I had listened to the second oncologist, I might be dead, or, at the very least, my health extremely compromised.

Some forms of chemo may directly affect a woman's weight, while other forms may indirectly influence weight fluctuations. Weight fluctuations are considered to be normal; therefore, knowing in advance that you may gain or lose a few pounds...

The surgery reveals exactly what I'm dealing with. Lymphoma.

Cancer is often looked upon as a death sentence, but God had other ideas. Faith, prayers, and alternative treatments along with chemo brought me back from the brink.

I thought that every child with cancer problems was accepted at St. Jude. It was total shock in disbelief that they refused my cousins little boy because he had an infection on his lung.

Should you have breast cancer or some other cancer requiring 4 or 8 chemo sessions, you will most likely be given either a combination of A and C (Adriamycin and Cytoxan) or T (Taxotere) and Benadryl. This is what you can expect when getting Taxotere.

Should you have breast cancer or some other form of cancer requiring 4 or 8 chemo sessions, you will most likely be given either a combination of A and C (Adriamycin and Cytoxan) or T (Taxotere) and Benadryl. This is what you can expect.

The journey continues for a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. This section covers more chemotherapy and the lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy procedure.

Excerpts from a diary I kept my final week of chemotherapy when I was 15 years old.

The journey continues for a woman diagnosed with breast cancer.

Hoping to help others cope with Lymphoma

The third article in a series of articles documenting a cancer journey.

Personal accounts from the cancer trail.

Just checking in to say I'm still among the living and missing you all. Also the latest on my daughter's cancer treatment.

A few thoughts on the Sleep Eye woman who has run away with her son.

The first of a series of articles I plan to do on my experiences in the chemotherapy treatment room

This article lists different type of support than may be needed by chemotherapy patients.

Patrick's Mother asks for prayers for her son to pull through. Patrick Swayze gives up on chemo nothing more the doctors can do. Patrick Swayze condition has turned for the worse. I hope Patrick will survive this bad ordeal,

Some facts about peritoneal cancer

Breast cancer survivor and writer Grace Goode provides real life tips and tricks for dealing with the side-effects of chemotherapy.

Cancer treatment can be very frightening, it's important for a patient to understand chemotherapy in order to know what to expect.

This topic is probably not "pretty" but hopefully it will be useful to someone out there who is on chemo and suffering from severe constipation.

I have a rare condition called a molar pregnancy. Its a one percent rate that women with this condition will have chemo. I fell in to that one percent.

When I was having chemo treatments, I didn't feel like eating much for various reasons. I discovered smoothies helped me get the protein I needed.

A flash fiction story about a woman's battle with cancer.