Blisstree » cancer-patient http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:23:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 With Cancer and Travelling: What to do? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/with-cancer-and-travelling-what-to-do-57/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/with-cancer-and-travelling-what-to-do-57/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:18:42 +0000 Gloria Gamat http://www.cancercommentary.com/2007/08/16/with-cancer-and-travelling-what-to-do/ Post from: Blisstree

With Cancer and Travelling: What to do?

]]> What if you are ill with cancer, can you still travel? I think it depends on your physical condition (like if you can still walk or not in so much pain) and where you are going.

And then, there’s the list of what to bring, like you medication kit and your phone book directory on whom and where the nearest to call in case there is a life-threatening emergency.

Of course, you cannot travel alone – somebody else should accompany you. Either if you are just going on a road trip somewhere or flying overseas.

Speaking of flying overseas, you might face some problems with getting travel insurance because you might be refused.

Like in this particular story:

A Shropshire cancer sufferer who spent her life savings on a dream holiday for her husband faces losing the trip because she has been refused travel insurance.

Kathleen Lewis, from Pant, near Oswestry, has just 24 hours to find a company who will insure her so that she can take her husband Rhys on a trip of a lifetime to Canada and Alaska.

As a cancer patient, what travel-related problems did you encounter?

An important question to answer really is, can a cancer patient still travel?

Please… do tell, if you can.

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With Cancer and Travelling: What to do?

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Cancer and Diet

]]> women_and_cancer_magazine.jpgI’ve been thinking about food and diet recently and bumped into this article from The Diet Channel: Guidelines for Effective Weight Loss and Weight Gain During Cancer Treatment.

According to the article, maintaining a healthy body weight is crucial when preparing for cancer treatment.

While a thin underweight body may not be able to tolerate cancer treatment, being overweight could increase the chance of cancer recurrence.

More than anybody else, a cancer patient’s nutritional and diet needs are complicated – it’s like walking on a very thin thread.

Lifted from Women and Cancer Magazine, the article discusses weight-can guidelines, tips and food choices specifically for cancer patients.

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Cancer and Diet

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