Cancer-Champions Blog

When you or a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, the physical and emotional stress of this challenging disease begins almost immediately. Emotions take control, which inhibits decision-making at a critical time. More specifically, a time when you are expected to make...

You may have heard the term patient advocate. You may even know someone who has benefitted from the services of a patient advocate However, you may be unclear as to how to find and hire one. How do I  find an advocate? First, know the difference between an independent...

You may have heard the term patient advocate... You may even know someone who has benefitted from the services of an independent patient advocate. However, you—like most people—are probably still unclear as to what they actually do and how to find one. People...

I don’t want to “give up” or “let my family down” I hear this quite often from clients who after months of treatment start to wonder if they really want to continue down the same path. Treatments require the stamina of both the physical body as well as emotional...

Social media and the Internet have increased our opportunity to amass information and form opinions around individual treatment decisions. As a result, there is an increased prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine in cancer care in the U.S. Most of the...