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Cooking through cancer: Antioxidant-rich recipes for treatment and beyond
It can seem difficult to eat more fruits and vegetables, especially if they haven’t been a big part of your diet until now. Here are some of our favorite delivery systems (aka recipes) for getting in your antioxidant fruits and veggies!
April 13, 2017 | by Cook for Your LIFE
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World Health Day: 10 lessons learned from ovarian cancer
I often tell people I am a graduate of the University of Cancer because, as with most great challenges in life, the cancer journey is full of lessons. In honour of World Health Day, I will share some of those lessons.
April 7, 2017 | by Sherry Abbott
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World Health Day: Finding acceptance in ovarian cancer
Donna Pepin was diagnosed with ovarian cancer – a disease she knew very little about - at the age of 49.
April 7, 2017 | by Facing Cancer Together
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World Health Day: 15 ways to boost mental health during treatment
Having gone through cancer treatment myself for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, here are 15 ways to boost your mental well-being...
April 7, 2017 | by Facing Cancer Together
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Oncology Nursing Day: Celebrating LGFB's major supporters
Brampton’s Lollita Rahaman, clinical nurse educator at William Osler Health System, can easily recall one of the most difficult moments from her nearly 20-year career of working the oncology floor. "I remember one patient in particular, who didn't have a good prognosis," Lollita said.
April 3, 2017 | by Larissa Cahute
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Cook for Your LIFE: From fashion design to cooking for cancer
If you’d told me ten years ago I’d be a leader in the world of culinary medical initiatives, collaborating on programs with Columbia University, backed by data and studies funded by the National Institute of Health, I would have asked you what you were smoking. And yet, that is what happened.
March 23, 2017 | by Cook for Your LIFE
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Stronger than stigma: Breast cancer and my mental health
How could I be so young and have cancer? How will I be strong enough to cope with this disease? Will it affect my mental health? Will I be able to continue school? In the blink of an eye, my whole life changed and I feared that it would never be the same
March 17, 2017 | by Lindsey Finkelstein
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The reality of life and death after a leukemia diagnosis at 21-years-old
I was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at 21-years-old and needed immediate treatment. After my first week-long induction treatment, I was still riddled with abnormal white blood cells and life -- or death -- got really real, really fast.
March 10, 2017 | by Ashlinn Sarah Jane
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Survivor tip: Allow yourself an identity that isn't about cancer
This is the thing, when you have cancer – like, when you are stuck with living with cancer, one of the best things possible is to forget about it all together.
March 1, 2017 | by Catherine Brunelle
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Riding Shotgun: Dealing with cancer as a male caregiver
“I struggled with the prospect of losing the most important person in my life, but also with the helplessness that you feel along the way,” Don says. “It’s a peculiar, male notion, that idea that ‘I’ll fix this’. But with cancer, that’s not going to happen.”
Feb. 28, 2017 | by Facing Cancer Together
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