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Issue 30

• Protect your skin, especially during radiation therapy
• Should cancer patients exercise during treatment?
• Introducing the Circle Of Sharing!™ – are you in?
• Caregiver Corner: Nutrition Now: What's good for your loved one with cancer can be good for you.
• Recent Research Reveals … Ovarian cancer is not so silent after all.

Previous Issues

Issue 29

• Help your loved one eat, drink, and be merry during the holidays.
• The secret to relaxation is right under your nose.
• Help your patient manage the "mental fog" called chemo brain.
• Caregiver Corner: Our series offers (just about) everything you ever wanted to know.
• Recent Research Reveals … Reminders increase breast cancer screening rates.

Issue 28

• The "mental fog" called chemo brain is very real. It can actually be seen in imaging studies.
• Even though your husband or wife has cancer, your sexual relationship is still important - and so is communication about it.
• Tips for helping your loved one fight the fear of recurrence.
• Caregiver Corner: Care giving: Our series offers (just about) everything you ever wanted to know.
• Recent Research Reveals … FDA approves use of drug for brain cancer treatment.

Issue 27

• Chemo brain plagues many people with cancer. In a 3-part series, we examine this "mental fog."
• Working while in treatment: Know the rights of a person with cancer.
• Create a family health history with the help of the surgeon general.
• Caregiver Corner: Care giving: Our 3-part series offers (just about) everything you ever wanted to know..
• Recent Research Reveals … FDA greenlights new drug for advanced kidney cancer.

Issue 26

• What's behind those medical breakthroughs you read about? Clinical trials.
• Cancer in the Workplace: Whom to Tell, When, and How Much
• Cancer Survivors Network: Click and connect to others who've "been there."
• Caregiver Corner: Giving Care at the End of Life
• Recent Research Reveals … Society report shows drop in colorectal cancer death rate, but the racial gap has widened.

Issue 25

• Medical record keeping is critical – just ask someone who's experienced a natural disaster.
• Less invasive virtual colonoscopy gets high marks for efficacy for average-risk people.
• Mark Twain got it right: "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times."
• Caregiver Corner: Are you coping well with your care giving responsibilities – or are you just getting by?
• Recent Research Reveals … Report shows drop in both cancer incidence rates and death rates.

Issue 24

• It's that time of year …
• Help team to the rescue!
• Does acupuncture really work?
• Caregiver Corner
• Recent Research Reveals …

Issue 23

• Is the flu shot safe for your loved one?
• Help your loved one feel better: You have the power.
• How to handle the holidays.
• Caregiver Corner
• Recent Research Reveals...

Issue 22

• Recent Research Reveals...
• It sounds funny, but it's no joke; it's "chemo-brain" and it's very real.
• Help your loved one tell others about his diagnosis.
• The American Cancer Society is here for you, just like we were for the Dreers.
• Caregiver Corner

Issue 21

• Recent Research Reveals...
• Skin cancer is the most common of all cancer types, but the good news is you can protect yourself.
• Don't let side effects affect good nutrition.
• Advances in radiation therapy are making treatment safer and more effective.
• Caregiver Corner

Issue 20

• Recent research reveals...
• Colon Cancer: An Overview
• A colonoscopy isn't a big deal. It just isn't.
• Is it simply the blues? Or is it depression?
• Caregiver Corner

Issue 19

• Recent research reveals...
• The Doctor-Patient Relationship: You Play a Part, Too
• How much alone time is too much alone time?
• Radiation Therapy: An overview of this common type of cancer treatment
• Caregiver Corner

Issue 18

• Recent research reveals...
• How Spirituality Might Help Caregivers Cope
• How to Find Financial Assistance during Cancer Treatment
• How Intimacy May Help Someone with Cancer Maintain Normalcy During Treatment
• A Prostate Cancer Survivor and His Wife Learn the True Meaning of Intimacy

Issue 17

• Recent research reveals...
• For Couples Coping with Cancer, Someone Has Written the Book
• The Importance of Sleep
• Volunteer: Help Others and Yourself
• Capturing Inspiring Stores from Cancer Survivors

Issue 16

• Recent research reveals...
• It's hard to see someone you love in pain. And you don't have to.
• "Chemo brain:" It's frustrating, distressing, and very real – and it is manageable.
• Advances in pharmaceuticals are amazing – and so are their price tags.
• Learn how a teen bone cancer survivor matures into mid-20s cancer advocate.

Issue 15

• Just a click away: Virtual support groups offer help at your fingertips
• Aromatherapy: An easy treatment that could help your loved one relax and feel better
• You're not alone: How connecting with other caregivers can help
• How a testicular cancer survivor used the Web to keep in touch and keep his spirits up

Issue 14

• As a caregiver of someone with cancer, you can make a real difference by helping others prevent cancer.
• Chemotherapy: What does the term really mean?
• How to talk to young children about a parent's diagnosis of cancer.
• A U. Coast Guard lieutenant and colon cancer survivor learned that bad things do come in threes, but that good things come in dozens.

Issue 13

• I Can Cope^® – It might just be the program you're looking for.
• Caregiver Corner: Take our stress and depression quiz.
• Respite Care: It can be a refreshing break for both you and your loved one.
• Learn how an athletic coach and prostate cancer survivor won his own "national championship."

Issue 12

• How do I work with a hospital to pay outstanding medical bills?
• If you're feeling depressed, anxious, or fearful, there's good news on two fronts: one – you're completely normal; and two – there's help.
• Caregiver Corner: You've got a friend.
• A breast cancer survivor enlists sisters everywhere for a breast cancer study – starting with her own sister.

Issue 11

• Here's help for the high cost of prescription drugs.
• Having cancer doesn't mean not having children.
• Welcome to Caregiver Corner.
• New guidelines encourage discussions about cancer and fertility.
• Antoinette Ramos survived Hodgkin lymphoma, and so did her chance of having children.

Issue 10

• Could your loved one with cancer benefit from a clinical trial?
• Complementary and alternative therapies: What are they? Are they safe?
• Nourish your loved one.
• Testicular cancer survivor spins his own "web" and heals with humor.

Issue 9

• Caregivers, take care.
• A big part of caregiving is understanding the purpose of treatment.
• Can you trust the Internet for cancer information?
• Breast cancer survivor runs (and strides) for her life, and others.

Issue 8

• Paying attention to pain pays off.
• Is a support group right for your loved one?
• Now you can tailor the World Wide Web to your world.
• Join a community-changing, life-changing event.
• Survivor proves the axiom: What goes around comes around.

Issue 7

• Welcome New Connections to your desktop.
• Shakespeare was right. It is "sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care".
• Advanced health care directives. You need one, too.
• Breast cancer patient falls in love again – with her husband, her life, and her job.
• Charitable cooperation aids victims of Katrina.

Issue 6

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• Where the need is considerable, so is help.
• Have you had a check-up recently?
• American Cancer Society national quality of life study.
• The American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout^® is just one day, but our efforts to control tobacco are year-round.
• Did you know each September is Childhood Cancer Month?
• Stand up and be counted.

Issue 5

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• With help, kids with cancer feel like kids again.
• Sometimes it’s easier to have man-to-man or woman-to-woman conversations.
• Treatment side effects: know when to alert the doctor.
• Year after year, more people realize the promise of Relay For Life^®.
• Survivor takes her own advice and lives to volunteer.
• Your support makes a difference every single day of the year.

Issue 4

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• Lend your loved ones your ears.
• Research breakthroughs.
• Relay for Life^®.
• Colon cancer.
• Fighting cancer together.

Issue 3

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• Caregiver, care for thyself.
• Questions arise at the oddest times.
• Sometimes, home is where the hope is.
• Survivor believes in miracles and marriage.
• The American Cancer Society: Your source for lifesaving cancer information.

Issue 2

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• Common cancer emotions: they’re all in the family.
• Nurture your body: with good nutrition.
• Conquering cancer: a feasible goal for our time.
• Breast cancer survivor has a recipe for recovery.
• Advocate for cancer funding with just a click of your mouse.

Issue 1

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• How can I help?
• What to say to someone with cancer.
• Basic dos and don’ts when talking with a person with cancer.
• On your feet, walkers and runners – it's time for Relay For Life^®.
• Survivor lives life in a new light.
• The Cancer Survivors Network^SM.