In active cancer treatment
Navigate the information based on your situation
Content:
You are now in the active treatment phase. It is a period where everyday life has changed, and where the focus is on getting through the process as well as possible, one day at a time.
To provide you with relevant information and practical tools, the guide below is divided according to both your illness situation and the treatment path you are following.
A) With localized disease (without spread)
You are now in the active phase of your treatment, where the goal is to remove the cancer and recover. Focus during this period is on getting through the process as well as possible, managing the physical and psychological challenges, and maintaining a well-founded belief in a good outcome.
1. Conventional treatment alone
Your primary focus should be on supporting the conventional treatment. It is about knowing your body’s reactions, alleviating side effects effectively, and using mental and physical tools to keep yourself strong and motivated throughout the process.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Port-a-Cath (venous catheter): Information for you who are to have or have had a “port” implanted for your chemotherapy.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Neoadjuvant Treatment: Knowledge about treatment given before surgery to shrink a tumor.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice to ensure essential rest during a stressful time.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet.
- Owerweight
Underweight
Weight contorl: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both low and high weight can have significant consequences for the treatment process, side effects, and quality of life.
- Owerweight
- Exercise: Daily physical activity has an anti-inflammatory effect and helps keep the body’s stress levels down. Every single step or workout counts.
- Movement with limitations: Exercise is many things. Here you will find solutions if your options are restricted.
- Neutropenia (low immune system): Review of food safety during and after chemotherapy. Which foods you should avoid, and how you minimize risk.
- Toxin-free everyday life: Consider whether you should implement measures to reduce your exposure to harmful chemicals, additives, etc.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing and Box breathing: Specific exercises to create calm in the nervous system.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Emotions: Support for managing the shock, anger, and powerlessness that often accompany the news that the cancer has returned.
- Sadness and depression: Tools for managing the mental pressure.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also, a powerful tool for medical consultations and in everyday life.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Relatives: Understand the reactions of those closest to you and find tools to support those who support you.
Practical help and community
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Travel: If you are traveling abroad, there are special insurance matters you should be aware of.
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
It is a particular challenge being a parent while simultaneously undergoing active treatment.
Your focus is split between having to take care of yourself and at the same time creating a secure and predictable everyday life for your children.
Here are a number of articles with support and tools for precisely this demanding dual role.
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is in active treatment, the entire family faces a difficult task. Everyday life is marked by treatments, concerns about side effects, and a great deal of pressure on family life.
Here is a collection of articles that provide knowledge and support to manage this demanding time and stand together as strongly as possible.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
The active treatment phase is often the most demanding part of the journey after a cancer diagnosis. By managing side effects proactively (in advance) and maintaining your mental and physical strength, you have done everything you can to give your treatment the best conditions to work. Every day is a step closer to the goal: A life after cancer.
I wish you the best. ❤
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
❤
What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
In active cancer treatment
A) 2. Localized – Conventional and alternative treatment
Navigate the information based on your situation
Content:
You are now in the active treatment phase. It is a period where everyday life has changed, and where the focus is on getting through the process as well as possible, one day at a time.
To provide you with relevant information and practical tools, the guide below is divided according to both your illness situation and the treatment path you are following.
A) With localized disease (without spread)
You are now in the active phase of your treatment, where the goal is to remove the cancer and recover. Focus during this period is on getting through the process as well as possible, managing the physical and psychological challenges, and maintaining a well-founded belief in a good outcome.
2. Conventional and complementary/ alternative treatment
The focus here is on creating the strongest possible synergy. You use conventional treatment as your primary weapon, while actively employing complementary strategies to alleviate side effects, strengthen your body, and potentially improve the effectiveness of the treatment.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Port-a-Cath (venous catheter): Information for you who are to have or have had a “port” implanted for your chemotherapy.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Neoadjuvant Treatment: Knowledge about treatment given before surgery to shrink a tumor.
- Integrative Oncology: An introduction to the treatment philosophy that combines the best of conventional and complementary treatment to create a unified, strong course.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals with a special focus on treating cancer patients. Here, it is possible to receive treatments that are not available in Denmark.
- Specialized treatments (often abroad). These include, for example:
- Clinics of particular importance:
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- Repurposed drugs and chemotherapy / and radiation therapy: Important knowledge about synergy and interactions.
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Dietary supplements for relief: Explore, for example, Ginger (for nausea), L-Glutamine (for mucosal problems), or CBD oil (for pain and nausea).
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Supplements and chemotherapy: Overview of 150+ dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during chemotherapy, focusing on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Supplements and radiation therapy: Overview of 150 dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during radiation therapy, with an emphasis on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Exercise: One of the most important tools against cancer is movement. Exercise has a reducing effect on stress and inflammation.
- Movement with limitations: Exercise is many things. Here you will find solutions if your options are restricted.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Quality of life and co-responsibility: The experience of having influence over the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be extremely beneficial.
Practical help and community
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Travel: If you are traveling abroad, there are special insurance matters you should be aware of.
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
It is a particular challenge being a parent while simultaneously undergoing active treatment.
Your focus is split between having to take care of yourself and at the same time creating a secure and predictable everyday life for your children.
Here are a number of articles with support and tools for precisely this demanding dual role.
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is in active treatment, the entire family faces a difficult task. Everyday life is marked by treatments, concerns about side effects, and a great deal of pressure on family life.
Here is a collection of articles that provide knowledge and support to manage this demanding time and stand together as strongly as possible.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
By choosing this integrative path, you are not a passive recipient of treatment, but an active architect of your own health. You use the documented effect of conventional treatment as your foundation, while building a scaffold of support with complementary methods that strengthens your body and alleviates side effects.
The key to success is a safe and well-informed synergy between the two worlds, in open dialogue with your treatment team. This is your path to creating the absolute best conditions for recovery.
I wish you the best. ❤
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
❤
What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
In active cancer treatment
A) 3. Localized – Alternative treatment alone
Navigate the information based on your situation
Content:
You are now in the active treatment phase. It is a period where everyday life has changed, and where the focus is on getting through the process as well as possible, one day at a time.
To provide you with relevant information and practical tools, the guide below is divided according to both your illness situation and the treatment path you are following.
A) With localized disease (without spread)
You are now in the active phase of your treatment, where the goal is to eliminate the cancer and recover. Focus during this period is on getting through the process as well as possible, managing the physical and psychological challenges, and maintaining a well-founded belief in a good outcome.
3. Alternative treatment alone
On this independent path, your treatment is a daily, dedicated effort. It is about consistently following your personal protocol and using all the chosen strategies – from diet to detoxification and mental focus – to fight the cancer.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- No medicine – Plan B: Which dietary supplements could you potentially use to replace some of these drugs to achieve a similar effect?
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Inflammation and cancer: A connection where chronic inflammation can increase the risk of developing cancer.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Detox – detoxification: Strategies that support the body’s ability to neutralize and eliminate harmful substances. By promoting these processes, general health and well-being are achieved and maintained.
- The Gerson diet: Pure vegetable juices can be cleansing and gentle. However, be mindful to avoid unwanted weight loss.
- Budwig diet: Some believe that this diet has exceptionally good results. A main ingredient is cottage cheese and cold-pressed flaxseed oil.
- Blood tests – What you can do: An overview of the most common blood tests for cancer, their normal ranges, and what you can do immediately if they fall outside the normal range.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Exercise: Daily physical activity has an anti-inflammatory effect and helps keep the body’s stress levels down. Every single step or workout counts.
- Cancer-specific training: An exercise program tailored to people with cancer to improve their physical and mental well-being.
- Alternative treatment concepts: Read about Dr. Vogl, Frankfurt, and Openwater treatment.
- Infusion and Injection Treatments: Explore Vitamin C I.V., Dendritic Cell Therapy, and Insulin-Potentiated Therapy.
- Evidence vs. Experience: An essential article for navigating your choices.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Faith moves mountains – the power of the mind: On the significance of the psyche for healing.
- Joe Dispenza: Works to uncover the effects of meditation on a scientific level and has achieved quite remarkable results for some participants.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
- Sadness and depression: Tools for managing the mental pressure.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Post-traumatic growth (PTG): About finding meaning and growth in the midst of hardship.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Forgiveness: If you have strong feelings of bitterness or anger, have these processed. Anger gnaws at your health – not at the person the anger is directed toward.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Quality of life and co-responsibility: The experience of having influence over the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be extremely beneficial.
Practical help and community
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Travel: If you are traveling abroad, there are special insurance matters you should be aware of.
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
It is a particular challenge being a parent while simultaneously undergoing active treatment.
Your focus is split between having to take care of yourself and at the same time creating a secure and predictable everyday life for your children.
Here are a number of articles with support and tools for precisely this demanding dual role.
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is in active treatment, the entire family faces a difficult task. Everyday life is marked by treatments, concerns about side effects, and a great deal of pressure on family life.
Here is a collection of articles that provide knowledge and support to manage this demanding time and stand together as strongly as possible.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
This phase of your journey to become cancer-free is about dedication and perseverance. You are now both the one receiving the treatment and the one administering it.
Your most important task is to listen to your body’s signals, systematically track your progress, and adjust your protocol when necessary. It is a full-time job that requires all your attention, but it is also the ultimate way to take active ownership of your own healing process.
I wish you the best. ❤
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
❤
What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
In active treatment for cancer
B) 1. With spread – Conventional
Navigate the information based on your situation
Content:
You are now in the active treatment phase. It is a period where everyday life has changed, and where the focus is on getting through the process as well as possible, one day at a time.
To provide you with relevant information and practical tools, the guide below is divided according to both your illness situation and the treatment path you are following.
B) With spread (metastatic disease)
You are now in a treatment phase where the cancer is managed as a chronic disease. The focus is now on, at a minimum, slowing the progression of the disease with systemic treatment, alleviating symptoms, and maintaining as high a quality of life as possible in daily life.
1. Conventional treatment alone
On this path, the goal is, in partnership with your treatment team, to find the most effective strategy to, at a minimum, control the disease. Furthermore, to alleviate any symptoms so that the highest possible quality of life in daily life can be maintained.
It is also about understanding the available treatments – whether they are systemic or local – and continuously assessing the effect so that your course of treatment can be adjusted to ensure the best possible balance.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Metastases: Description of what metastases are, the concern about recurrence, the various symptoms in the body, how metastases are diagnosed, as well as the available treatment options.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Port-a-Cath (venous catheter): Information for those receiving long-term systemic treatment who have, or are about to have, a ‘port’ placed.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Specific local treatments: Overview of a range of possible treatments that, for most people, can be curative.
- Systemic treatments: Immunotherapy, targeted cancer treatment, and hormone therapy are also options it may be relevant to know about, as these are often the primary weapons in metastatic disease.
- Genetic mutations: If it hasn’t been done, it is now time to investigate whether you have a specific mutation (e.g., BRCA, KRAS, EGFR) that opens up for targeted treatment.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Experimental treatment: When the cancer recurs, participation in clinical trials can provide access to the newest forms of treatment. Understand what it entails and how you can be considered.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice to ensure essential rest during a stressful time.
- (Supplements for relief: Investigate, for example, ginger (for nausea), L-Glutamine (for mucosal problems), orCBD oil (for pain and nausea).)
- (Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.)
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Pain management: An important part of cancer treatment, as many patients experience pain.
- Neutropenia (low immune system): Review of food safety during and after chemotherapy. Which foods you should avoid, and how you minimize risk.
Harmony and mental strength
- General breathing: A simple method for managing pain, anxiety, and discomfort during treatment.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- Emotions: Support for managing the shock, anger, and powerlessness that often accompany the news that the cancer has returned.
- Sadness and depression: Tools for managing the mental pressure.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also, a powerful tool for medical consultations and in everyday life.
- Palliative care: Understand how palliative treatment is an active effort for your quality of life.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
Practical help and community
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Travel: If you are traveling abroad, there are special insurance matters you should be aware of.
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
It is a particular challenge being a parent while simultaneously undergoing active treatment.
Your focus is split between having to take care of yourself and at the same time creating a secure and predictable everyday life for your children.
Here are a number of articles with support and tools for precisely this demanding dual role.
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is in active treatment, the entire family faces a difficult task. Everyday life is marked by treatments, concerns about side effects, and a great deal of pressure on family life.
Here is a collection of articles that provide knowledge and support to manage this demanding time and stand together as strongly as possible.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Living and being in treatment with metastatic disease is an exercise in persistence. Your most important role is to be an active partner in your own course of treatment – to monitor the body’s signals, communicate openly with your practitioners about effects and side effects, and make choices that ensure the best possible daily life for you.
The goal is to find a stable balance that keeps the disease in check and allows for a good and meaningful life.
I wish you the best. ❤
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
❤
What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
In active treatment for cancer
B) 2. With spread – Conventional and alternative
Navigate the information based on your situation
Content:
You are now in the active treatment phase. It is a period where everyday life has changed, and where the focus is on getting through the process as well as possible, one day at a time.
To provide you with relevant information and practical tools, the guide below is divided according to both your illness situation and the treatment path you are following.
B) With spread (metastatic disease)
When the cancer has spread, the treatment goal often changes to long-term control of the disease. Focus is now on, at a minimum, slowing the progression of the cancer, alleviating any symptoms, and maintaining the highest possible quality of life in daily life.
2. Conventional and complementary/alternative treatment
In this situation, the integrative approach is about launching a total effort. You apply relevant conventional treatments to slow the disease or bring it into remission. This is done while simultaneously using a targeted complementary strategy to weaken the cancer, strengthen the body, and maintain the highest possible quality of life.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Surgeries: General information about standard surgeries and their procedures.
- Checklist for surgery: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Chemotherapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, administration, and dispensing.
- Checklist for chemotherapy: Here is a checklist so you do not have to stress over whether you have thought of everything.
- Dental health: Important documentation before treatment is crucial. Avoid systemic inflammation and know when you MUST NOT have tooth extractions performed.
- Side effects – Chemo and Radiation – minimize: If you experience side effects in connection with your treatment, you can find guidance to alleviate most of them here. Use the search function if necessary.
- Raidation therapy: Information about treatment, effects, side effects, and possible long-term effects.
- Integrative Oncology: Combines conventional cancer treatment with evidence-based complementary methods. The borderline between conventional and complementary treatment.
- Metastases: Description of what metastases are, the concern about recurrence, the various symptoms in the body, how metastases are diagnosed, as well as the available treatment options.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Experimental treatment: When the cancer recurs, participation in clinical trials can provide access to the newest forms of treatment. Understand what it entails and how you can be considered.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
- Specific local treatments: Overview of a range of possible treatments that, for most people, can be curative.
- A range of treatments that offer something special:
Specific treatments and techniques
Specifikke Behandlinger og teknikker
- A range of treatments that offer something special:
- Clinics (Germany) such as Arcadia Praxisklinik, Dr. Vogl, Frankfurt, or Praxisgemeinschaft für Zelltherapie, Duderstadt: Recognized and well-reputed clinics that, among other things, have experience with treatments that are not available in Denmark.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- No medicine – Plan B: Which dietary supplements could you potentially use to replace some of these drugs to achieve a similar effect?
- Repurposed drugs and chemotherapy / and radiation therapy: Important knowledge about synergy and interactions.
- The COC-Protocol: A specific protocol that combines a range of repurposed drugs. Investigate whether this more aggressive strategy is relevant for you now.
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Focus on specific supplements such as curcumin, green tea (EGCG), melatonin, artemisinin, and medicinal mushrooms such as Turkey tail.
- Dietary supplements for relief: Explore, for example, Ginger (for nausea), L-Glutamine (for mucosal problems), or CBD oil (for pain and nausea).
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Supplements and chemotherapy: Overview of 150+ dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during chemotherapy, focusing on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Supplements and radiation therapy: Overview of 150 dietary supplements that can support cancer patients during radiation therapy, with an emphasis on their potential benefits and safety considerations. Plus 24 selected supplements with rationales.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- It must feel right: So much is said and written about different types of diets. What should you believe and what is best.
- Fasting: A strategy to stress cancer cells and promote the body’s self-healing processes (autophagy). Investigate how fasting can be integrated into your protocol.
- Diet vs. specific side effects: Find advice for e.g. Diet vs. nausea and vomiting or Diet vs. gastrointestinal cancer.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Metabolic strategy: Now as a more central part of your overall effort.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Alternative treatments: Consider, for example, hyperthermia therapy or hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as a supplement.
- Exercise: One of the most important tools against cancer is movement. Exercise has a reducing effect on stress and inflammation.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
- Sadness and depression: Tools for managing the mental pressure.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Quality of life and co-responsibility: The experience of having influence over the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be extremely beneficial.
Practical help and community
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Travel: If you are traveling abroad, there are special insurance matters you should be aware of.
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
It is a particular challenge being a parent while simultaneously undergoing active treatment.
Your focus is split between having to take care of yourself and at the same time creating a secure and predictable everyday life for your children.
Here are a number of articles with support and tools for precisely this demanding dual role.
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is in active treatment, the entire family faces a difficult task. Everyday life is marked by treatments, concerns about side effects, and a great deal of pressure on family life.
Here is a collection of articles that provide knowledge and support to manage this demanding time and stand together as strongly as possible.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Living with metastatic disease and choosing an integrative approach is about taking full command. You orchestrate an advanced, multi-faceted strategy where conventional medicine and complementary efforts work in synergy to keep the disease in check or perhaps even achieve remission.
Your role is to be the well-informed project manager who, in dialogue with your practitioners, makes the choices that best balance any aggressive treatment with high quality of life. It is a demanding but potentially very powerful way to face the disease.
I wish you the best. ❤
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
❤
What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.
In active treatment for cancer
B) 3. With spread – Alternative alone
Navigate the information based on your situation
Content:
You are now in the active treatment phase. It is a period where everyday life has changed, and where the focus is on getting through the process as well as possible, one day at a time.
To provide you with relevant information and practical tools, the guide below is divided according to both your illness situation and the treatment path you are following.
B) With spread (metastatic disease)
When the cancer has spread, the treatment goal often changes to long-term control of the disease. Focus is now on, at a minimum, slowing the progression of the cancer, alleviating any symptoms, and maintaining the highest possible quality of life in daily life.
3. Alternative treatment alone
Opting out of conventional treatment in this situation is a choice that requires an extremely disciplined and highly comprehensive effort. Your lifestyle becomes your treatment, with the aim of changing the body’s biochemistry and making it an inhospitable environment for the cancer.
General info
- Cancertype: Find the type of cancer you have been diagnosed with. If necessary, use the search function (e.g., Breast cancer, Lung cancer, etc.). Here you can read about treatment options, statistics, and prognosis.
- Examinations: Understand the different scans and tests you will go through. Once you have selected the specific cancer type, the relevant examinations will be listed under that topic.
- Blood tests – What you can do: An overview of the most common blood tests for cancer, their normal ranges, and what you can do immediately if they fall outside the normal range.
- Metastases: Description of what metastases are, the concern about recurrence, the various symptoms in the body, how metastases are diagnosed, as well as the available treatment options.
Prepare for meeting
- The Decision: Prepare for each meeting with the doctor. Take note if you experience side effects from your treatment (that can wait until the next meeting). Reflect on how the treatment is progressing.
- Responsibility and loss of control: Have we handed over control of our health? Discussion of the paradox of high legal responsibility and a complete lack of health-related responsibility.
- Evidence: A discussion about the scientific documentation that is virtually required on every occasion. Held up against experience, which is increasingly losing value.
- Second opinion/ treatment abroad: If you feel uncertain about whether the correct diagnosis has been made or the optimal treatment has been proposed, a second opinion can be a good solution if it is financially within reach.
- Holistic Clinics, Europe: Overview of clinics and hospitals that have a special focus on treating cancer patients. If you are aware of places not mentioned, I hope to hear from you.
- Clinics (Germany) such as Arcadia Praxisklinik, Dr. Vogl, Frankfurt, or Praxisgemeinschaft für Zelltherapie, Duderstadt: Recognized and well-reputed clinics that, among other things, have experience with treatments that are not available in Denmark.
Strengthen body and immune system
- Sleep: Good advice for ensuring vital rest during a pressured time.
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Repurposed Drugs: An introduction to medications that can supplement your treatment. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- No medicine – Plan B: Which dietary supplements could you potentially use to replace some of these drugs to achieve a similar effect?
- The COC-Protocol: A specific protocol that combines a range of repurposed drugs. Investigate whether this more aggressive strategy is relevant for you now.
- Dietary supplements: An overview of which supplements have effects that may be relevant for cancer patients. (Remember to check with your healthcare provider)
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Focus on specific supplements such as curcumin, green tea (EGCG), melatonin, artemisinin, and medicinal mushrooms such as Turkey tail.
- Meta-analysis: Cannabis in cancer: Meta-analysis reveals a clear consensus on the beneficial use of medical cannabis within cancer treatments and cancer development.
- Nutrition and diet: Introduction to the importance of diet. Read specifically Anti-inflammatory diet and Sugar and cancer as well as Ketogenic diet/ LCHF.
- Overweight: Overweight has an inflammatory effect in the body. This creates a favorable environment for cancer.
- Underweight: You quickly lose strength if you become underweight, as this leads to a loss of muscle mass.
- Weight control: For cancer patients, weight control is an important aspect, as both underweight and overweight can have significant consequences for the course of treatment, side effects, and quality of life.
- It must feel right: So much is said and written about different types of diets. What should you believe and what is best.
- Fasting: A strategy to stress cancer cells and promote the body’s self-healing processes (autophagy). Investigate how fasting can be integrated into your protocol.
- Targeted strategies: Diet as a tool. Here you will find strategies for maintaining muscle mass, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation, etc.
- Metabolic strategy: Now as a more central part of your overall effort.
- Blocking signaling pathways for your cancer type: Find your cancer type under the topics, and then your specific cancer form in the chart. Discuss with your doctor whether this is a viable path for you.
- Alternative treatments: Consider, for example, hyperthermia therapy or hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as a supplement.
- Detox – detoxification: Strategies that support the body’s ability to neutralize and eliminate harmful substances. By promoting these processes, general health and well-being are achieved and maintained.
- The Gerson diet: Pure vegetable juices can be cleansing and gentle. However, be mindful to avoid unwanted weight loss.
- Budwig diet: Some believe that this diet has exceptionally good results. A main ingredient is cottage cheese and cold-pressed flaxseed oil.
- Exercise: One of the most important tools against cancer is movement. Exercise has a reducing effect on stress and inflammation.
- Cancer-specific exercise: An exercise program tailored to people with cancer to improve their physical and mental well-being.
- Infusion and Injection Treatments: Explore Vitamin C I.V., Dendritic Cell Therapy, and Insulin-Potentiated Therapy.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): As a complementary treatment for cancer, TCM may be worth knowing about.
- Research: Here you can dive into interesting articles about new research results in the treatment of cancer.
- Protocols: Many cancer patients find strength and increased quality of life in following a established protocol, which for many has documented effects.
- Bombs, fire extinguishers, and timing (including an application schedule): Ensure that you take your medication and dietary supplements so they work together optimally and you achieve the best possible effect.
Harmony and mental strength
- Wim Hof breathing: Specific exercises to calm the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
- Faith moves mountains – the power of the mind: On the significance of the psyche for healing.
- A. F. The Marathon Woman: Clear proof of the mind’s enormous power over the body.
- Joe Dispenza: Works to uncover the effects of meditation on a scientific level and has achieved quite remarkable results for some participants
- Tapping: A tool to reduce anxiety and emotional discomfort.
- My Best Advice: If the list of dietary supplements becomes overwhelming, the most important ones are mentioned here.
- Acupuncture or Reflexology: Select at least one of the therapies that corresponds to the sense that is most important to you.
- Emotions: Support for managing the emotional challenge.
- Sadness and depression: Tools for managing the mental pressure.
- Logbook: Consider tracking your symptoms, treatment, and progress. Also a powerful tool for doctor consultations and in everyday life.
- Inspiration and strength: Here is a collection of quotes, stories, and thoughts that can offer a moment of peace and perhaps a new perspective.
- Cancer stories from survivers: It can be a great comfort and help to read stories of cancer survivors who have the same type of cancer as yourself. Find your cancer type in the overview on the page.
- Book reviews: Literature suitable for cancer patients to provide hope, good advice, and guidance.
- Literature: Find books that can provide support and comfort.
- Quality of life and co-responsibility: The experience of having influence over the outcome of one’s cancer treatment can be extremely beneficial.
Practical help and community
- Grants for cancer patients: Here are places where, provided certain criteria are met, you can apply for a grant.
- Travel: If you are traveling abroad, there are special insurance matters you should be aware of.
- Insurance payout – critical illness: Check your insurance for coverage of critical illness, which usually entitles you to a lump sum payment.
- Sick leave: What are your normal rights – and how do you move forward. The first steps in the process.
- Support groups / patient associations: Knowledge about where you can find community and support from others who understand exactly what you are going through.
Parents with cancer
It is a particular challenge being a parent while simultaneously undergoing active treatment.
Your focus is split between having to take care of yourself and at the same time creating a secure and predictable everyday life for your children.
Here are a number of articles with support and tools for precisely this demanding dual role.
- Young children: Good advice on how and when to talk to your children about the illness.
- Relatives: Although you are the patient, you can find perspectives here on how your family and your children experience the situation.
- Emotions: Tools for managing your own emotions so you can be a more present parent.
- Worst case: Suggestions on how to ensure—under all circumstances—that you remain in your children’s lives in the future.
- Social relations: Inspiration for managing family dynamics and asking for help from your network.
- Stories about cancer for children: Get help explaining the situation to your children or grandchildren here. There are stories for most types of family relationships.
Child/ Young person with cancer
When a child or young person is in active treatment, the entire family faces a difficult task. Everyday life is marked by treatments, concerns about side effects, and a great deal of pressure on family life.
Here is a collection of articles that provide knowledge and support to manage this demanding time and stand together as strongly as possible.
- Children and young people with cancer: The central article on the subject.
- Relatives: This article is essential reading for parents, siblings, and the close network.
- Patient associations: Find the associations that specifically support families with children affected by cancer (e.g., The Danish Children’s Cancer Foundation).
- Sexuality and Intimacy: An important topic for young patients.
- Social relations: About maintaining contact with friends and classmates during a long course of illness.
Conclusion
Facing metastatic disease and choosing this path is to take on the ultimate responsibility for your cancer journey. It is a courageous challenge that requires a daily effort, where your lifestyle is your strongest weapon.
Your success is measured by your ability to remain a dedicated researcher of your own body, intelligently and persistently adjusting a multi-faceted protocol to keep the disease in check. Every single day is a conscious action and a choice for life.
I wish you the best. ❤
See also Alternative Treatments – Overview
❤
What you read on “Jeg har Kræfter” is not a recommendation. Seek professional guidance.