In honor of tonight’s Stand Up To Cancer event (what, you don’t know about it?! Read Karen Lynch’s announcement, and then head on over to Pink Ribbon Review for her live blogging during the event!), I thought it’d be appropriate to tell you about some brain cancer resources tonight.

The National Cancer Institute’s Brain Tumor Home Page provides information about cancerous brain tumors; brain tumor prevention, causes, and genetics; treatment options for brain tumors, including clinical trials; and statistics, research, and news about brain tumors.

The Oncology Channel’s page on Brain Cancer gives an organized overview of the two kinds of brain …read more

Last week I received a request from a Mental Health Notes reader wishing to see a post regarding smoking and mental illness – specifically, the effects of quitting smoking on people with mental illness:
Alicia, can you please make a posting about the effects of quitting smoking on people with mental illness. The challenges of it, how it can spark an episode, safe ways of quitting etc…This is a really important issue that the “regular quitters” don’t have to deal with. I have had a difficult time finding online information and support on this topic.
Always happy to oblige, I put on …read more

Did you know April is Cancer Control Month? It’s true, it’s true, and in honor of that we bloggers here at the b5media Health & Wellness Channel have decided this month’s theme day should focus on cancer.
Rather than try to choose just one topic pertaining to cancer and mental health – or going the obvious route of “How Cancer Affects Your Mental Health,” which would, I think, lead to quite a generic post as the topic is so vast – I thought it’d be more beneficial to point out several different resources that deal with cancer and mental health.
After all, …read more