This is a personal story of one of the people who are close to me and just recently had her 2nd surgery. Her recovery is still in progress but we had noticed a remarkable progression from her. You don’t know how strong this lady is. I salute her braveness despite Continue Reading
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Connecting With Peer Survivors Can Help Others Manage Their Cancer Battle
In today’s world where everyone is connected yet, not connecting. Technology has made our world closer, smaller and more connected; however, we are losing the art of real communication. People are afraid of connecting with someone with real conversation, and I would like to imagine, too, how much more for Continue Reading
Why It Is Important To Give Healthy Foods To A Cancer Patient?
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. ~Ann Wigmore Things we ought to know why appropriate diet is very important to anyone who has cancer before and after treatment. This is not only true because Google Continue Reading
5 Things You Need To Know Before Visiting Children With Cancer
It’s hard to know what to say or do for someone who has cancer and most especially to a child diagnosed with cancer. You want to say or do the right thing, but sometimes it comes out wrong at the end. You wish to help someone who has cancer, be Continue Reading
How an Emotional Support Helps a Cancer Patient and Survivor
Try to examine yourself now. Are every word, action, and energy go straight to your heart? What about when you make mistakes, can you easily know it, feel it and you feel like tearing yourself apart? Now imagine this, your sibling, parent, friend or any special person in your life Continue Reading
6 Reasons Why We Should Keep Talking About Cancer
“Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.” – M. Scott Peck Facing a heartless disease called cancer is already facing death. Denying and keeping cancer from our family or friends adds the fatality of death. For fear of people learning about Continue Reading
6 Approaches To Embrace Your Inner Strength
Surviving cancer is like conquering high mountains, it is not the mountain or cancer we defeated, but ourselves. September 2017, I hiked for 40 kilometers in Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam. After climbing one of the highest mountains of Vietnam, where I suddenly realize that there are many more mountains to climb. Continue Reading
What Is Life After Beating Cancer?
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked Continue Reading
Disconnect to Connect
Let your soul catch up with your body. Set it on fire. Be fearless and follow your soul, it knows the way. I started to write this when I was in the coffee shop, realizing the mistake I’d done and I was off the agenda. I have nothing to do, Continue Reading
My Leiomyosarcoma (2)
CieloMy name is Cielo, the author of “The Cancer Voice Asia”, a blog that aims to support and inspire anyone who is facing cancer. I know how it feels to be diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of cancer, Leiomyosarcoma, at the age of 29. I know the challenges, Continue Reading