Cancer

Mr Ramendra Kumar will speak with Aparna Mittal, founder PatientsEngage on his tryst with Colon cancer, his coping strategies for dealing with the challenges of treatment and how his love for films helps keep the spirits up. Mr. Ramendra Kumar, a motivational speaker and award winning author was diagnosed with Colon cancer in Nov 2021. Since then he has been coping with the challenges of colon cancer and the treatment.   Read about Ramendra Kumar Part 1 and Part 2 or watch the video…

Renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of adult kidney cancer, making up about 85% of diagnoses. And yet it is rarely talked about.  Kidney Cancer is also an area which has seen significant progress in treatment options. Key takeaways from the webinar are given below.  An expert panel talked about kidney cancer and answered questions and concerns that patients have. The panelists are Dr. KL Jayakumar, MD Radiation Oncology. Professor and HOD, Sreemookambika Cancer center,…

Mukta Bhonsule, 55 was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer 9 years ago in Mumbai. She shares her journey with breast cancer, the survivorship issues she deals with and the challenges of balancing this as a caregiver of a COPD patient. I was diagnosed with Grade 3 Stage 2A Breast Cancer(HER 2+) in May 2013. What were your early symptoms. I was on a holiday in Goa and it was very hot there. When I got back, I had itching in my breast which I thought was due to heat and sweat. I spoke to my…

PatientsEngage and EHA Consortium invite you to an interactive webinar series on Patient Centred Access to Quality Cancer Care. In the first of the series aligned to the UICC theme of "Close the Care Gap", we are very privileged to have an esteemed and diverse panel who will highlight the challenges faced in equitable access to quality cancer care and identify the areas where we still need to make progress. The panelists are Dr. CS Pramesh, Director Tata Memorial Hospital; Convener National…

Anu Bhatia, a school teacher, fulfilled her late husband’s wish to write a novel after he lost his voice to cancer of the vocal chords to help those going through similar experiences. Her book sensitively captures the two year’s journey of loss and grief. In May 2016, I had taken a bunch of kids on a school trip to Germany. As my husband was not there with me, I would call him every night before going to sleep and rhapsodise about the places I had visited. He would laugh and share my excitement…

Ramendra Kumar is a motivational speaker and an award winning author.  A positive person, he has also taken his ongoing battle with colon cancer in his stride. He talks about how he balances both his worlds. I am an engineer and an MBA who had a long stint with SAIL in its Corporate Communications Department. I have had 42 well-received publications to my credit and have been a part of a number of literary festivals, across the world. I was diagnosed with Stage 2B Colon Cancer around 40…

Mark your calendars. Share with cancer survivors of cervical cancer, vulvar cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer and men after prostate cancer and penile cancer. They should all know about lower limb lymphedema, a significant survivorship issue   While there is some awareness on lymphedema after breast cancer, we found that the awareness on lower limb lymphedema was extremely low. Lower Limb Lymphedema affects women with gynaecological cancers like cervical cancer, vulvar…

Shormistha Mukherjee, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018, authors a book about her treatment and struggles with disarming honesty and hilarious observations. She wishes to emphasize that cancer doesn’t have to be a death sentence as depicted in most films and books. Read her insightful interview. Congratulations on the success of your book ‘Cancer, You Picked the Wrong Girl’. It is a brilliant blend of health and humour. What motivated you to write this book? Actually there were two…

एक रूटीन वार्षिक जांच से स्टेज 3 प्रोस्टेट कैंसर के आक्रामक रूप का निदान हुआ। इस लेख में एक प्रोस्टेट कैंसर उत्तरजीवी (सर्वाइवर) निदान, उपचार और उसके बाद के 5 साल के अपने अनुभव साझा करते हैं।   मुझे प्रोस्टेट कैंसर का निदान 50 साल के होते ही मिला। एक नियमित वार्षिक मेडिकल चेकअप से पता चला कि मेरा पीएसए (प्रोस्टेट स्पेसिफिक एंटीजन) 9 है - सामान्य रेंज 0-4  है। मैं अन्यथा काफी स्वस्थ था, मेरे वार्षिक जांच में कोई अन्य चिंताजनक संकेत नहीं थे। मेरी जीवन शैली बहुत सक्रिय थी, और…

Jyoti Pande Lavakare has enough data to make us aware how harmful the air we breathe in is. She put it all together in a book, which is also driven by a personal loss. A relentless activist, she advocates mindful consumption and slow living and wants us to realise and act on air pollution, which is increasingly proving fatal. How far do you think spreading awareness about air pollution will help in stemming it? Awareness precedes action. Unless we know how harmful air pollution is to our health…