Here’s a great question I got from a reader living with lupus: Dear Kairol, A number of people are giving me well meaning but downright useless and unsolicited advice about my illness and how I should handle it – diet suggestions, names of new doctors, and how to manage my illness in the workplace.   ...

Exercise is good for more than just your waistline. A recent study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research suggests that regular physical activity can lower a woman’s overall risk of cancer...

A home-based diet and exercise program reduced the rate of functional decline among older, overweight long-term survivors of colorectal, breast and prostate cancer, according to a new study. “In 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services declared mobility maintenance and functional...

Patients for A Moment is a blog carnival by/for/about patients.  Every other week Duncan Cross, blogger extraordinare, solicits posts from patient bloggers.  He then features them all together in a singular post on his blog.  Now he is passing the torch.  Twice a month, a new blogger will host...

I am sure that many of you were paying attention to the Tour de France these past few weeks. And probably hoping (maybe expecting) that Lance would pull it off. I know I was! First off, I have a huge amount of respect for the event. Having been known to ride 112 miles in a day myself, I can’t imagine...

I’m under the weather today.  Trying to get comfy in bed with a fever on a hot summer day.  Trying to peel myself away from my computer and my workaholic tendencies.  Trying to take catnaps while reading Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri’s most recent collection of short stories.  Wondering...

I’ve been busy traveling the East Coast with book readings and parties, but have not had a public reading in my own town yet.  It’s about time I rectify that. i[2]y Chicago presents a stupid cancer book signing of EVERYTHING CHANGES: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and...

Chemo Caps have gone chic!  Susan M. Beausang, designer of the BeauBeau™ knows that women want to feel as beautiful as they did when they had hair. The beaubeau scarf is a fashionable alternative to wearing a wig – the closest thing to having hair!  Cancer hats have NEVER looked so chic! For...

Go green, vegan, raw, buy organic, juice up, chow on berries, ditch sugar. There are anti-cancer diet books, blogs, and products galore that tempt me where it most hurts – the idea that what I eat will make my cancer go away. It’s anxiety provoking, wanting nothing more than to be cancer free...

I just returned to NY City after a week long retreat in rural Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay. It was an intentional time set aside for post treatment rest and reflection – an opportunity to integrate everything that’s happened over the past 10 months. I entered a different state of conscious...