This article, along with others on this site, aims not to tell you what to do regarding your cancer diagnosis but rather to provide helpful facts in order to better help you decide how to treat your illness. Treatment is one area where facts are so important. You, as the patient, need as much information as possible in order to choose which treatment to accept. Some people choose a combination of orthodox and alternative treatments. They claim that the two work together to increase their chances of beating the disease.
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This article discusses orthodox treatments for cancer. To define orthodox, we mean surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment as approved by health authorities and provided widely by medical professionals. The alternatives to orthodox treatments are just that – alternatives. They are lumped together under that heading and are not discussed in this article. Here we consider which type of treatment a cancer patient can take but only in the field of orthodox treatments.
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Of course it’s easy to say ‘don’t panic’ but hearing the news that you have cancer is likely to test most of us. But in this article let’s try and take a calm look at the situation. The word we are discussing is panic. We are not talking about worry or concern or even sadness or distress, all of which are common responses to the news of a cancer diagnosis. No, here we are discussing panic.
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One of the sad aspects of cancer is that friends and loved ones sometimes are reluctant to wish the patient a speedy recovery. There can be a good reason for this reluctance. Get well cards for someone who has had their hip operated on or their wisdom teeth removed, almost always don’t apply to a patient with cancer. So rather than offend, many of us choose to say little or nothing. But there’s no need to hold back. There are greeting cards and get well cards with appropriate messages. It’s just a matter of finding the right one.
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In recent decades things have changed and one field in which enormous change has taken place is that of medical science. A generation or two ago, news that a loved one had cancer struck many people with dread. It can still be a great shock to hear the disease has been discovered in your loved one’s body but more and more, people are beating cancer or learning to live with it. But it helps to know how you might react to cancer news today.
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