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Subtle Therapies With Big Impact
... or I had a “booboo,” she would rub it with her hands, and if it was really serious, kiss it. Somehow it always made us feel better. ... vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss and anemia. Traditional chemotherapy (unlike newer, more targeted chemotherapies) has been aimed at ...
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Hands of Medicine
... in reading the pages. They wait anxiously for consultations and treatments. In one exam room, Susan, a 43-year-old artist and mother of ... not want to hear – malignant breast tumor. A lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation are the recommended course of treatment. In the ...
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Oncology: Bodywork for Cancer Patients
... I sat next to a woman who revealed she had received chemotherapy for cancer. The clinic where she had received treatment had a ... knew his body had been traumatized by the medical procedure, and he wanted to resensitize it. Instead, the practitioner was overzealous. The ...
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Holistic Massage and One Breast Cancer Patient
... her primary care physician, an internist, who examined her and referred her for a mammogram. Based on the result of that inconclusive ... was only the beginning. It was followed by extensive chemotherapy, an experimental bone marrow transplant and radiation. Throughout ...
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Massage and the Cancer Patient
... is that despite the fact that I live near New York City and have been to the top doctors throughout, each doctor — the surgeon, the ... It reduces pain and minimizes the effects of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. It enhances a patient’s body awareness and allows ...
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Cancer, Radiation, and Massage
... just completed many months of treatment for breast cancer and was on a cruise to relax after the arduous experience. What she was most ... of the three main forms of cancer treatment — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — require certain adaptations to the massage ...
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Feeding the Skin
... of us has the opportunity to go through life with courage and face our difficulties with dignity. This is a story about the forces of ... of her shirt, like a sling. The clinic put her on chemotherapy immediately and her gorgeous auburn tresses were thinning within ...
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Oncology: Cancer and Human Connection
... 2005. It’s a calling, a commitment, and a challenge, but it’s not for everyone. Massage for cancer clients has ... and pathology of the process; precautions for radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery; appropriate bodywork modalities for cancer clients; ...
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One Man's Massage Journey
... in 1918. A three-year-old girl resented her new baby brother and wished he were dead. A few days later the baby was dead. The girl didn’t ... in the hospital. I massaged patients after surgery, during chemotherapy, after radiation therapy, and in the bone marrow transplant unit. ...
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A Softer, Lighter Mind-Body
... was facing the known (a regimen of necessary, but painful and debilitating medical treatment), and the unknown (the outcome). “The ... myself feel better as much as I could while I was having chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. Those are very demanding, unpleasant, ...