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With these, patients are able to gain psychological flexibility, which allows them to stay focused on their goals—no matter how difficult it might seem with a cancer diagnosis. 4. Supportive-Expressive Therapy (SET) SET enables cancer patients to ventilate their feelings in a supportive and non...
allowing it to treat cancerous cells throughout your body. Systemic chemotherapy can be especially helpful if cancer cells have spread from the primary tumor to other parts of the body. These cancer cells can be very small (micro metastases) and hard to detect, so this may be the only...
Patients had a positive view to the CISLOW study, citing reasons such as contributing to future research, the potential of fewer toxicities, and the gut feeling that seven lower doses might be less toxic (quote nr. 5). At the time of the diagnosis and treatment, patients felt motivated ...
Lupus Diagnosis It can be challenging for doctors to diagnose lupus. Lupus can mimic other diseases and its initial presentation varies from patient to patient. It is not unusual to have minor symptoms for years prior to a lupus diagnosis. There is no singular test for lupus. There are certai...
If it were as easy to defeat cancer as mindset, people would not die of it by the thousands every day. Similarly, comments about appearance while rampant, can strike the wrong chord. I can’t tell you how many times people find out about my stage 4 diagnosis and say, “But y...
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) increases with age but with a worrying trend of increasingly young age of diagnosis. Compared to their counterparts with late onset of disease, these younger subjects face long disease duration with increased risk of diabetes-related complications. Besides, ...
Stop the spread:In some cases, chemo may only be able to keep cancer from spreading to other parts of your body or slow the growth of cancer tumors. This can help you live longer with cancer. Ease symptoms:In some cases, chemotherapy can’t cure or control the spread of cancer and is...
In what ways does early diagnosis help a woman and her family to cope with her disease?Parkinson's disease is a common disease in elderly. Explain.If there were a test that predicted whether you would get Alzheimer's at a ce...
Recognise stress of diagnosis, mental health, psychosocial impacts.DoL 2 – declarative and procedural knowledge: healthy eating, being active, monitoring condition, taking medication, reducing risks, client, family driven learning, guided by DE, set goals: identifying current knowledge, abilities.DoL ...