There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from being at odds with your own stomach.
Most of the people we work with can describe it exactly. The morning after an infusion. The third day of a ...
A woman I saw not long after her diagnosis told me that her oncologist had encouraged her to focus on self-care. She nodded in the appointment the way most of us nod when we do not want to seem diffic...
There is a moment I see that almost nobody writes about.
The patient is talking. The specialist is talking. Scans, cycles, counts, side effects, next steps. And off to the side, in the second chair, ...
There is a detail that comes up in our conversations more often than any number on a lab report. Somewhere in the middle of talking about scans and treatment plans, someone mentions, almost in passing...
A gentle, evidence based guide to bland foods, hydration, and getting back to real eating, from two physicians who sit with people in the hardest weeks of treatment.
A few years ago I sat with a woma...
There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives after a diagnosis.
It is not the peaceful kind. It is the kind that shows up when the calendar empties out. Work gets handed off. The gym membership g...
We have sat across the table from hundreds of people who just heard the word cancer for the first time. And almost without exception, once the initial shock settles, the same question surfaces: “What ...
Within days of a diagnosis, almost everyone I work with arrives at the same question.
What should I eat?
It may be the most searched question in all of medicine. Every month, hundreds of thousands o...
