Strive to Thrive: How to Protect Your Health after an Allogeneic Transplant
Overview of health problems that can arise after an allogeneic transplant (transplant using donor cells) and how to prevent and manage them.
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Strive to Thrive: How to Protect Your Health after an Autologous Transplant
Learn From Dr. Peter McSweeney what you can do to THRIVE after an autologous transplant.
Managing Emotional Challenges after Transplant
Mindfulness can be a helpful tool to manage the stress and anxiety survivors feel long after transplant.
Optimizing Nutrition after Transplant
Learn about the role of nutrition after transplant, strategies for managing eating difficulties, and common myths about cancer and nutrition.
Cognitive Effects of Cancer Treatment: Chemobrain and How to Treat It
Learn how transplant can affect learning, memory and organizational skills, and strategies you can use to minimize the impact on daily living.
Introduction To Graft-vs-Host Disease
Learn what you can do to manage graft-vs-host disease and how to work closely with your healthcare team to address issues early.
Take a Breath! Managing Breathing Problems after Transplant
Learn about lung problems that can occur after transplant, what you can do, risk factors and treatment options.
Your Mouth and Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease
Learn the symptoms of chronic graft-versus-host disease in the mouth and therapies available to treat it.
Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease of Skin and Connective Tissues
Graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) often affects skin after a stem cell transplant. Learn the symptoms and treatment options.
Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver
Learn how GVHD can affect the gastrointestinal tract and liver following a transplant with donor cells, and strategies available manage it.
Your Eyes and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
Learn the symptoms of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in your eyes following a transplant, and therapies available to treat it.
Palliative Care: How It Can Improve Your Survivorship Experience
Learn how palliative care can be provided alongside curative treatment to improve a survivor’s quality of life & how to find a specialist.
Growth, Thyroid, Puberty and Other Endocrine Issues after a Childhood BMT
Learn how transplant can affect your child's thyroid function, growth, puberty and other endocrine functions.
Protecting Your Child’s Health Long Term/Transitioning to Adult Care
Learn how to help your child transition from pediatric to adult healthcare.
Helping Your Child with Learning and Organizational Challenges after Transplant
Learn about organizational and learning challenges that can occur after your child’s transplant, and strategies with these challenges.
Creating a Family after Transplant: Medically Assisted Reproduction and Adoption Options
Learn strategies to create a family after transplant including medically assisted reproduction and adoption.
Caregiver Challenges
Learn about challenges caregivers face after transplant, and strategies to cope with stress and build resilience.
Managing Sleep Problems after Transplant
Consequences of insufficient sleep on physical and psychological health after transplant, approaches to falling and staying asleep.
Male Sexual Health after Transplant
Learn about sexual health problems men may experience after transplant and strategies to manage them.
Women’s Sexual Health after Transplant
Learn about sexual difficulties women may experience after transplant, and ways to improve the quality of sexual experiences.
Managing Pain after Transplant
Learn the different types of pain transplant survivors may experience, techniques to assess pain, and strategies for effective pain management
Caring for Our Spirits: The Role of Spirituality in Recovery
Learn about avenues for exploring spirituality and the role spirituality can play in healing after transplant.
Yoga and Meditation for Patients and Caregivers
Learn about and try some simple yoga and meditation techniques you can use to reduce stress.
Managing Peripheral Neuropathy – Lessons from the Clinic
Learn about the different types of nerve pain, particularly in hands and feet, that can occur after transplant, and treatment options.
Managing Your Financial Health after Transplant
Learn strategies to pay off medical debt after transplant, the role of budgeting to manage future financial health, and estate planning basics
Tips on How to Get and Use Your Health Insurance
Options for obtaining health insurance, current laws, how to compare plans, and appealing a denial of an insurance claim.
Employment Rights and Disability Insurance Options
Returning to work, what you need to disclose, how to obtain disability benefits, and the rights of family caregivers who take time off work.
The Mind/Body Connection: How It Can Help Transplant Survivors
The importance of mind-body connections for recovering transplant survivors, and how mind-body interventions can promote psychological health
