Living with advanced cancer

You may hear health professionals use different terms to describe cancer that has progressed beyond the early stages, they could talk to advanced cancer, secondary, metastatic, or terminal phase.We define advanced cancer as a cancer cure is unlikely.

Redeeming the new

You may be the impression of being completely overwhelmed. "At first, you're completely numb and unable to think. Then it seems that everything starts to go very fast around you. "

You do not particularly like to do if everything went well, or try to hide or ignore what you feel. It is not uncommon to go through various emotions that come and go at different times:

* Shock and disbelief - as if time had stopped for you.
* Anger - against yourself, your family, doctors, the whole world, your god or simply the inevitable cons. That anger may result from the loss of control of your life but can also lead you to blame others for what happens to you.
* Anxiety (insecurity), and fear, for example death or effects of cancer treatments.
* Sadness and grief - you may be sad losses that the illness requires you (you must surrender your physical ability, your job or travel, for example). Or you feel a mourning in advance, so that you project in the death ahead.
* Denial - you may reject the diagnosis or what the doctors tell you about your illness.
* Guilt and regret - in retrospect, you may want to be what you would or should not have done throughout your life.
* Depression - for example if you feel sad, have more hope and crying constantly. Such states of mind, they are growing, extend or begin to take over your thoughts and your life, can be signs of clinical depression. You should know that depression can be treated.

Over time, you might be able to accept what happens to you - that is, acknowledging that cancer is incurable and likely to result in death. Accepting the disease, it is not renounce life. This allows you instead to take the reins of your life and you focus on what is most important to you.