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Meditation Made Easy: Simple Practices for Patients With Cancer and Their Caregivers
This description of meditation practice, with some simple exercises, can serve as an introduction to its benefits or just help cancer patients and caregivers better cope with disease-related stress.
The Role of Positive Psychology in Oncology Practice
A novel approach to how patients — and nurses — think about challenges can improve their mood and coping ability during a cancer crisis. Strategies that support better moods are also offered.
Fertility and Family Planning: Supportive Conversations With Cancer Patients
These pointers can help oncology nurses broach the topics of fertility and family planning with patients with cancer or the parents of pediatric patients with cancer.
Shifting Dynamics of Social Support After a Cancer Diagnosis
A guide for helping patients assess their social network after a cancer diagnosis and find the supportive resources they may need.
The Role for Wounded Healers in Oncology Nursing
A reflection on how clinicians’ own illness humanizes them as healers.
How to Help Patients at the End of Life and Their Loved Ones During the Holidays
A social worker reviews the challenges patients and their families will face dealing with anticipatory grief and bereavement during festive holiday activities.
Strength and Hope for Women in the Mist of Cancer
A review of the most feared effects of breast cancer treatment and resources to recommend to patients coping with these effects.
Anxiety, Depression in Prostate Cancer: Managing Psychosocial Effects in Male Patients
A review of how emotions, social perceptions, and physical effects influence coping skills for men with prostate cancer.
Hope, Gratitude, and Spirituality: What They Mean to Cancer Patients
A reflection on how these elements affect patients at the time of diagnosis, during their cancer journey, and how it can change their life in survivorship.
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