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Ask the Doctor:  "While undergoing treatment for breast cancer, are there any precautions I should take when enjoying the summer outdoors?"
While chemotherapy and radiation therapy may increase your sensitivity to the sun somewhat, that's no reason to stay indoors, says radiation oncologist Francine Halberg, M.D., who specializes in treating women with breast cancer. Halberg, who practices at the Marin Cancer Institute and serves as associate clinical professor of radiation oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, encourages her breast cancer patients to be outside and to be active.
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Managing the side effects of breast cancer therapy
After 22 years working at Fox Chase Cancer Center, clinical nurse specialist Carolyn Weaver is struck by all the progress that has been made in managing the side effects of cancer treatment. Weaver, who has been caring for breast cancer patients exclusively for the past seven years, says many of these remedies did not exist years ago.
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Ask the Doctor:  "I am taking care of my partner who is being treated for breast cancer and I am feeling a lot of stress. What should I do?"
Psychiatrist David Spiegel, M.D., says that it is a good thing for partners to acknowledge that they, too, are under stress. Spiegel, Willson Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, says there tends to be the feeling that the person with the cancer is the only one who has any real stress. It is, however, important to recognize that partners of people with cancer have their own set of burdens. These are related, but different.
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