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Customized Exercise Programming - Pancreatic Cancer   Will received a referral for a client with pancreatic cancer. He’s been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for three years, but this is his first client with pancreatic cancer. Although it was caught earlier than most, Will is unsure if he can…

Pancreatic cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. However, its toll is higher in more developed countries. Reasons for vast differences in mortality rates of pancreatic cancer are not completely clear yet, but it may be due to lack of appropriate diagnosis, treatment and cataloging…

Hormone therapy (also called hormonal therapy, hormone treatment, or endocrine therapy) slows or stops the growth of hormone-sensitive tumors by blocking the body’s ability to produce hormones or by interfering with effects of hormones on breast cancer cells. Tumors that are hormone insensitive do not have hormone receptors and do…

Cancer and Brain Fog According to the Mayo Clinic, chemo brain is a common term used by cancer survivors to describe thinking and memory problems that can occur during and after cancer treatment. Chemo brain can also be called chemo fog, cancer-related cognitive impairment or cognitive dysfunction. Though…

Most of us know that every October symbolizes Breast Cancer Awareness Month around the globe. I witnessed my mother battling breast cancer three times since 1981. She is currently fighting the battle with widespread-metastatic breast cancer. Today she is winning! According to Breastcancer.org:About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about…

Cancer is the fourth biggest killer in Malaysia, the Health Ministry has said in its latest report called the Malaysian Study on Cancer Survival (MySCan). It was revealed that cancer is responsible for 12.6 per cent of all deaths in government hospital — but the rate was more than…

Khiarica received a referral for a client with melanoma. She has been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for two years, and this is her first client with melanoma. She asked if she could hire me to help her with Mort’s exercise program and teach her how to put the…

Jim received a referral for a client with bladder cancer. He’s a PT assistant and has been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for three years, but this is his first client with bladder cancer. He asked if he could hire me to help him with and teach him how…

Cancer is the third leading cause of death in the UAE, according to the second annual statistical report of the UAE National Cancer Registry. The first two causes of death in the country are circulatory system diseases and injuries. There were 4,700 new cases of cancer in UAE…

Jeff received a referral for a client with bone cancer. He’s been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for a year, but this is his first client with bone cancer. He asked if he could hire me to help him with and teach him how to put together Stan’s exercise…