Here are some additional practical tips for hair loss: ? Buy a small metal screening device (available at a hardware store) that you put over your shower drain to prevent the large quantities of hair from blocking your drain. ? Keep an empty plastic bowl in the shower to collect the hair as it comes [...]

Women who use avoidance as their coping mechanism have trouble with radiation because of its dailiness. Instead of coming to the hospital for a surgical procedure or chemotherapy treatment every few weeks, they will need to come every day. Thus there are daily reminders that this is really happening, that breast cancer has been diagnosed, [...]

In any case, the experience of living with a parent who has cancer produces an unusually early awareness of mortality in the children. Such an increased level of sensitivity and anxiety often influences acutely the choices young adult children make about their work, careers, and relationships—choices that may set them apart from their peers. Adult [...]

Some husbands have told us that their children assume that the death of their mother is a real possibility. Let them talk about their fears and their feelings with both of you if that feels right to you both. It may be that your wife cannot emotionally handle too much of this conversation at this [...]

For those who are comforted by the strength of their own beliefs, their already established habits of personal prayer will provide crucial support. What had previously furnished a familiar, stabilizing ritual will now, in time of personal crisis, provide a soothing refuge and a pathway toward healing. You will come to realize, and value, the [...]