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Cancer
Knowledge forms the basis to conscious and proactive disease management.
Access scientifically based, easy explained information about your disease, common symptoms, and coping strategies in our blog.
Describing pain
Pain is a warning signal from the body. In particular in the case of recurring pain, a precise description creates the basis for medical diagnosis and treatment.
Documenting symptoms, understanding the body's signals
Symptoms are signals from the body. Systematic symptom tracking enables patients to better understand their complaints and promotes communication with doctors.
Build healthy routines with SMART goals
Routines that are aimed at SMART goals make it easier to implement healthy behaviours permanently. For this reason, routines and SMART goals are also important in disease management.
Biological Therapy
Biologics are a class of drugs that are used, for example, for autoimmune diseases, cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases. Due to their mechanisms of action, they can represent an effective treatment option.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs for short, are analgesics that are used to relieve pain, inflammation, and fever.
What is an analgesic?
Analgesics are medicines that are used to reduce or relieve pain. Analgesics can be differentiated according to their potency, site of action and chemical structure.
What is fatigue?
Fatigue describes a state of intense and prolonged exhaustion that can manifest on physical and mental levels. Fatigue can occur as a symptom of various diseases or as an independent syndrome.
Cortisone - effect and side effects
Cortisone is the inactive precursor of the hormone cortisol. For medical purposes, cortisone is used for rheumatic diseases, allergies, asthma, inflammatory skin diseases and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.
Melatonin - the sleep hormone
Melatonin is a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle. The main role of melatonin is to signal to the body when it is time to sleep. As a medication, it can help alleviate sleep problems.
Cortisol - More than just the stress hormone
Cortisol is a versatile hormone that fulfils numerous vital functions in the body, including stress response, metabilic functions, sleep-wake-rhythm, blood pressure and immune functions.
The circadian rhythm: a human clock
The circadian rhythm is a fundamental biological process that influences important biological processes such as the sleep-wake cycle, hormone production, body temperature and metabolic processes.
The bio-psycho-social model
Health and illness are influenced by biological, psychological and social factors. The bio-psycho-social model is a holistic approach that takes into account the interrelationships between these factors.
Healthy sleep
Fall asleep, stay asleep, start the new day feeling refreshed. How healthy sleep works.
Exercise & cancer: which sport is right?
Exercise can have a positive effect on tumor-related fatigue, anxiety and depression and thus help people cope with cancer. Read this article to find out which types of exercise are particularly suitable.
Why exercise is also good for cancer patients
Sport is healthy. For the body as well as mental health, cognition and sleep quality. Exercise is also beneficial when it comes to cancer, and the right balance is important.
Nutrition for Cancer
A healthy and balanced diet is important during cancer, as it can influence the healing process and treatment success.
Depression, Fatigue and Therapeutic Approaches
Sensations such as depression, lack of energy and discouragement can accompany cancer. Learn what it is, how to distinguish from fatigue and what to do.
Psychological Stress & Illnesses with Cancer
Cancer can be accompanied by major psychological stress, which can cause mental illnesses such as anxiety and adjustment disorders and depression.
Dealing with emotions
Emotions can be overwhelming — both positively and negatively. Mindfulness, acceptance, self-care, and exercise can help you deal with them.
Understanding emotions
Self-reflection and empathy are two effective tools for understanding emotions.
What are emotions?
A feeling, an emotion - they encounter and accompany us every day. But what do you understand by emotions?
Managing fatigue in everyday work
Various strategies and a proactive approach in professional environments can help to moderate fatigue in everyday life.
Chemotherapy-induced polyneuropathy
Common symptoms include sensitive irritants (e.g. tingling, ant walking, stinging, electrifying) and sensitive failure symptoms (e.g. feeling of furry, numbness, feeling constricted, walking on cotton wool)
Disability pension
Disability pensions provide basic benefits for people who are no longer able to work as a result of an accident or illness. However, a number of requirements must be met.
Medication intake when there is a time difference
What should you pay attention to when taking medication when traveling to another time zone?
Resilience
Resilience is a psychological elasticity or tension. It describes the ability to survive difficult life situations without lasting impairment.
Self-efficacy: the belief in one's own abilities
Self-efficacy is the inner conviction that you can master difficult or challenging situations on your own.
Tumorrelated fatigue
Fatigue creates an extreme additional burden for cancer patients. What tumor-related fatigue is and what measures could be taken is explained in this article.
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