HEALTH COMMENTARY: "Exploring Human Potential"

Category: cancer

What would YOU do?

Post author By Mike Magee
Post date September 26, 2007

Some cancer patients choose not to pursue treatment to prolong lifeAnyone facing a potentially terminal illness has confronted the questions of what to do when treatment appears to be failing. Is it best to fight for life until the end — or, as some patients do, does it make more sense to experience the final […]

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New Discoveries, New Reasons to Hope

Post author By Mike Magee
Post date February 14, 2007

Cancer is scary — there’s no doubt about it. We all live in fear of it, and 1.4 million are diagnosed each year. Then there’s treatment, therapy, pain, waiting, and either death, recovery or relapse. As a result, patients and families often have a difficult time sustaining hope in the face of a cancer diagnosis. […]