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I stopped pondering why cancer happened to me and instead focused on achieving my goals and taking life on.

Take Life On: My Mantra After Cancer

Fatigue is a common side effect that may linger for years following cancer treatment. Experts and survivors talk about ways to help find a balance between life and fatigue.

Focusing Energy on Cancer-Related Fatigue

From Danielle Fishel and Rick Steves announcing their diagnosis to the “Emily in Paris” star discussing her cancer experience, here’s what’s happening in the oncology space this week. 

Danielle Fishel of ‘Boy Meets World’ Has Cancer, ‘Emily in Paris’ Star Discusses Her Diagnosis and More 

One expert explained why ‘it’s very important to know what’s going on’ with regard to new renal cell carcinoma treatments.

What Patients With Kidney Cancer Need to Know About Welireg

Androgen receptor pathway inhibitors were shown to better treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and improved survival. 

ARPIs May Improve Survival in Some With Prostate Cancer 

Walking up and down the street a few times a day can help prevent patients with kidney or bladder cancers from becoming deconditioned.

Being Active Can Help Frailty After Cancer Treatment

When considering health-related quality of life, it’s important to think about the “small changes” patients with kidney or bladder cancers can make at home, an expert told CURE®.

Health-related quality of life refers to the “ability to live a fulfilling life” based on the impacts of a person’s health, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. This also plays a role in functioning, whether it’s physical, psychological or social.

health-related quality of life factors, such as frailty

, patients should remain active because they can become “deconditioned very quickly,” Dr. Eric A. Singer, a urologic oncologist and chief, Division of Urologic Oncology at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, said during an interview with CURE®.

“We can make some changes,” he said. “Even small changes add up over time.”

Singer sat down with CURE® to discuss the steps patients with kidney or bladder cancers can take to help manage their health-related quality of life.

[Be] attentive to their comorbidities. Cancer is a scary, scary thing, but we can't just focus on that and ignore diabetes or hypertension (high blood pressure), or other things that are going on. Being active — so getting up and moving, even if it's not much, just to begin that process. People can become deconditioned very quickly, even [after] a couple days of resting on the couch or the recliner. You can begin to see a decline in what they're able to do, so really thinking about it, so we can get an assessment [and] we can see how people are doing. Then we can make some changes, and even small changes add up over time.

Even just walking, starting small, [by] walking up and down your street doesn't require any weights, doesn't require any special equipment, just to be doing that. Of course, if somebody has issues with [their] knees, or hips or arthritis or other things, there are other things we can get them doing to be active. But again, just trying to avoid being sedentary, and sitting in the same place or sitting for most of the day. Then again, not easy, even if we're just doing a few walks a day that builds up over time, and you're gonna see that stamina improve. And that can be a real benefit.

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Dana Frost, a cancer survivor and grief advocate, said writing about survivors’ guilt and connecting with others feeling the same way was therapeutic. 

Connection May Help With Survivors’ Guilt

Survivors’ guilt is a common feeling when someone loses a loved one to cancer, but sharing stories and letting others know that they are not alone in that feeling could be therapeutic, according to Dana Frost.

Frost is a Hodgkin lymphoma survivor and founded the Forced Joy Project after her husband, Bradford Frost, was diagnosed with stage 4 renal cell carcinoma. After her spouse’s death, Frost said that she struggled with survivor’s guilt, but found solace in writing about it and connecting with others.

 Grief Advocate Explains the Difference Between Forced Joy and Toxic Positivity

“I think that the more that we can talk about and normalize these difficult things, we’re just paving the path and the way for other people [who] are coming later, for them to give themselves permission to feel all the feelings that are coming up,” Frost said in an interview with CURE®.

I don't know why we feel guilty. I wish we didn't. If I could remove any feeling, it would be the guilt. But I think survivor's guilt is a big one [when] continuing to live after you've lost a loved one. There's so much guilt associated with that. How can I possibly find anything joyful when this person has died or, I've survived and they didn't?

So, I think there's a lot of guilt of just living after diagnosis after a death.

Brad died over seven years ago, and it's still something that I struggle with. I'm able to quiet it and I handle it very differently [than I used to]. But it was really prevalent for the first couple of years. I wrote about it, I think I was very open about those feelings, which, again, we don't talk about all of the hard things that we're experiencing in a diagnosis after the death of a loved one. So that felt like therapy of being like, “This is what's going through my head, my heart, my body right now,” and to find other people that felt the same way to be like, “Oh, this is not uncommon. This is not abnormal to feel these feelings.” I think the more that we can talk about and normalize these difficult things, we’re just paving the path and the way for other people [who] are coming later for them to give themselves permission to feel all the feelings that are coming up.

Dana Frost, a cancer survivor and grief advocate, said writing about survivors’ guilt and connecting with others feeling the same way was therapeutic.

Connecting With Others May Help With Survivors’ Guilt

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