Adding a palliative care specialist to your medical team ensures there is someone present who is completely focused on helping relieve the pain, symptoms, and side effects associated with your cancer. In this video, you’ll learn what palliative care is and how you will benefit from it.
As we have noted over the past year, the collateral damage from treatment is often understudied. This is particularly true for peripheral neuropathy—the numb toes, painful feet, and feeling of pins and needles in the fingers. It is really amazing that so little research has been done on neuropathy considering that it is estimated that between 20% and 50% of women treated for breast cancer will experience this painful long-term side effect.
June 18, 2014 7-8:30 p.m. EDT
With a diagnosis of breast cancer, your identity as an individual person disappears and you are suddenly a patient. The world as you knew it is forever changed. The next weeks, months, and even years become a whirlwind of appointments for medical consultations, procedures, and treatments. And somewhere between treatment and trying to reassemble your world, you realize that you will never be the same. Your feet burn. You’re tired all the time. Your sexual appetite is gone.