Nausea, vomiting and your cancer treatment
Understanding these common side effects of treatment is the first step to managing it. “Despite the remarkable evolution of CINV...
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Abida Taher
- Apr 15, 2022
- 4 min
How Breast Cancer Affects Your Bone Health.
Did you know some types of chemotherapy can increase the risk for bone loss and fractures? “Bone loss that occurs with cancer therapy is...
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Alexandra Fucarino & Abida Taher
- Apr 9, 2022
- 8 min
Managing chemo brain and neuropathy symptoms with food.
Find out what to eat and what not to. “When it comes to diet, most people's concerns involve weight loss, fitness, cardiac health,...
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Abida Taher
- Mar 10, 2022
- 7 min
How to Treat & Manage Lymphedema
A combination of preventive & treatment options to improve your quality of life. “Lymphedema is often confused with other causes of...
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Abida Taher
- Mar 7, 2022
- 4 min
Lymphedema and Breast Cancer
Help yourself by learning more about it. Breast cancer related lymphedema affects approximately 1 in 5 patients treated for breast...
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Abida Taher
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
How to Manage Chemo Brain
A combination of several approaches has been found to be more effective. Openly accepting the truth of the chemo brain is the first step...
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Abida Taher
- Feb 16, 2022
- 3 min
What Causes Chemo Brain?
Know more about the mental changes cancer treatment can cause. “Chemo brain affects up to 75 % of patients during treatment with 35 %...
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Abida Taher MD, PHD
- Feb 9, 2022
- 4 min
What You Need to Know About ‘Chemo brain.’
Cognitive changes while on treatment is not uncommon. "Chemo brain is extremely common. As many as 75% of cancer patients have...
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Abida Taher MD, PHD
- Jan 29, 2022
- 4 min
Risk Factors for Mouth Cancer and How to Reduce it.
Know the signs and be proactive to allow for early diagnosis and treatable disease. “Historically the death rate associated with this...
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Abida Taher MD, PHD
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
Oral Care in Cancer Patients
Why is it important and how to go about it. Coordination by a comprehensive cancer care team can significantly reduce the physical and...
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Abida Taher MD, PHD
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Effects of Cancer Treatment on the Oral Cavity.
A guide to what to expect. Clinicians across the spectrum of healthcare in the community are part of a cancer patient’s treatment team....
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Abida Taher
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
Integrative Oncology - What Does It Mean?
Evidence-based care modalities can complement mainstream cancer treatment Integrative oncology aims to optimize health, quality of life,...
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Abida Taher
- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
How Important Are Cancer Screening Exams?
Screening tests help find cancer before the symptoms appear.
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Abida Taher
- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
Fertility and Cancer Treatment
Know how cancer and its treatment impacts your reproductive system. Reproductive health issues including fertility conservation,...
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Abida Taher
- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
Genetic Testing and the Risk of Inherited Cancer
Did you know some types of cancer run in families? “We know that even if you have genetic mutations that give you a high risk of cancer,...
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