{"id":3509,"date":"2022-11-14T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:59:04","slug":"living-with-cancer-may-be-a-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/14\/living-with-cancer-may-be-a-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with Cancer May be a New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not so long ago, a diagnosis of cancer was the worst news a patient could hear. Flash forward to today when, thanks to remarkable improvements in\u00a0cancer treatment<\/a>, patients are\u00a0learning to live with the disease as their \u201cnew normal.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Liz Burke: One Woman\u2019s Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

In TheJournal.ie, an Irish news website, a woman named Liz Burke shared her experiences in honor of Daffodil Day, a fundraiser for the Irish Cancer Society. Liz was originally diagnosed with\u00a0breast cancer<\/a>\u00a0in 2007.<\/p>\n

After a lumpectomy, Liz underwent a course of chemotherapy followed by another of radiotherapy. She demonstrated her sense of humor by relating a story about purchasing a wig to cover her baldness and finding it one day in the mouth of her Jack Russell terrier.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Liz\u2019s doctor discovered that breast cancer cells had\u00a0metastasized to her liver<\/a>. This triggered another nine months of chemotherapy followed by two years of maintenance, but the good news is that the tumors became inactive.<\/p>\n

Finally, one more blow. After five years, the breast cancer metastasized again, this time resulting in a brain tumor. Liz had surgery to remove the tumor and radiotherapy treatment afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople Survive Cancer\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

These days Liz follows a regular schedule of MRIs, CT scans and weekly infusions. Her message? \u201cPeople can live quite happily alongside cancer.\u201d Liz believes we\u2019re lucky to live in a time when so much progress is being made with new and effective\u00a0cancer treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Issels\u00ae: There IS Life After Cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of our patients at Issels\u00ae have similar stories of hope and recovery.\u00a0Visit our website<\/a>\u00a0to read and hear their testimonials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not so long ago, a diagnosis of cancer was the worst news a patient could hear. Flash forward to today when, thanks to remarkable improvements in\u00a0cancer treatment, patients are\u00a0learning to live with the disease as their \u201cnew normal.\u201d Liz Burke: One Woman\u2019s Story In TheJournal.ie, an Irish news website, a woman named Liz Burke shared … Continue reading Living with Cancer May be a New Normal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,205,538],"tags":[224,509],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer-treatment","category-immuno-oncology","category-immunotherapy-for-cancer","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-immuno-oncology"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}