Healing Heat: Harnessing Infection to Fight Cancer - Modern immunology plus historic experiments suggest a better way to gear up the human immune system to battle malignant disease.
For families affected by cancer, the phone number is easy to remember: 1-800-ACS-2345. The letters stand for the American Cancer Society, and dialing the number takes you to the ACS's National Cancer Information Center in Austin, Texas.
It used to be that a patient could not be enrolled in a hospice program if he or she was undergoing any type of treatment, but that has changed. Community Hospices now has an open door policy that allows a patient to receive treatments as long as they are palliative rather than curative. Still, the average stay of a patient in hospice care is a mere 44 days, a number that suggests people are entering hospice long after the point at which it might be beneficial to them. “Hospice is underused,” Martin laments. “Of people who are eligible for hospice, probably one half of one percent use it.”
As patients create their own home sanctuaries, these elements actually can help individuals cope with the challenges of illness, according to health-care specialists during "Creating a Healing Environment," an event held at LivingWell Cancer Resource Center in Geneva.
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