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Cancer Scripts and Articles
by Karen Richie, MD
http://www.cancerscripts.org/index.html 		altman23
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Colorectal Cancer Network
Fighting for screening for all adults and providing support and help in finding resources, CCNetwork is a 6 year old activist group dedicated to ending colon cancer.
http://www.colorectal-cancer.net 		Priscilla_Sa...
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Living Life Fully
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http://www.livinglifefully.com/ 		altman23
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Redefining Failure: A Nurse's View
Cancer patients whose therapies have not succeeded are said by their physicians to have failed therapy. When chemotherapy doesn't stop the spread of a tumor or when radiation can't control metastasis, the patient is reported in cancer conference to have failed treatment. Many cancer patients have heard the failure word, and many use it to describe their treatment history, as if it were a fact of their illness course. One young woman with breast cancer told me, "I failed chemotherapy, radiation and surgery," as if it were a test. (A test of what?)
http://www.cancerlynx.com/failure.html 		altman23
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The Body as Battlefield
By Judith J. Petry, MD, FACS I am always saddened by the line that I read so often in obituaries: "....died after waging a brave battle against cancer (AIDS, etc.)." Waging a battle sounds like such an exhausting way to spend the last days or weeks or months of ones life. There must be another way for us to perceive our illnesses. Certainly, the medical system encourages this war mentality with the language of battle. Physicians talk about the "weapons against cancer," the "fight against heart disease," the "crusade against AIDS." However, this language is not limited to life-threatening illness. We even talk of fighting off a cold, or the flu, or battling allergies.
http://www.learningplaceonline.com/illness/choices/body-battlefield.htm 		altman23
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The Psychological Challenges Facing Melanoma Patients
There are better and worse ways of coping with a melanoma diagnosis, or with any life-threatening illness. Better or worse in the sense that some ways of coping have been found to promote the process of psychological adjustment and to foster emotional well-being over time, while other ways of coping are less successful along these lines (1). The difference in outcome is one of degree: the better ways are not perfect, and worse ways are not totally useless. All ways of coping have an adaptive intent, for that is explicit in the concept of coping (2); but some ways lead to more adaptive outcomes.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/challenge.html 		altman23
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Why God, Why?
Dr. James Dobson is a well-known Christian psychologist and family counselor, and the following is taken from his best-selling books Life on the Edge and When God Doesn't Make Sense. He discusses our inability to explain why bad things happen and how to handle it when we don't understand everything God is doing — or seems not to be doing — in the middle of life's storms. These are concepts that will help you maintain hope when pain and trials threaten to shake the foundations of your world
http://www.family.org/teenguys/breakmag/tracts/A0017790.html 		altman23
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