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The Rehabilitation Remedy
Make Your Life Matter
The U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center prepares you for your life during and after cancer.
Simple lifestyle changes that can help you prevent cancer.
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06 Relax and Distract Borrow an Apple iPad tablet from the Patient Education Resource Center during your day at the Cancer Center.
One Native American patient strives to make heritage part of her healing process.
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08 Detecting Distress Patients find resources and relief through a new screening tool based on national guidelines.
On the cover: Patient Shoshana Phillips started a non-profit organization to help other Native American cancer patients and their children cope with the diagnosis.
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Life Traditions
SPRING 2013
Learn about the latest in research at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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SPRING 2013 CONTENTS
Published quarterly by the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5944. If you do not wish to receive future issues of Thrive, please call Martha Towas at 734-936-0434. Max S. Wicha, M.D., director Marcy B. Waldinger, M.H.S.A., chief administrative officer Karen Hammelef, R.N., M.S., director of Patient and Family Support Services Nicole Fawcett, manager of cancer communications Beth Johnson, editor and senior writer Karen Moeller, art director; Chas Moeller, project manager, Karen Moeller Design Edda Pacifico, photographer, Edda Photography Executive Officers of the University of Michigan Health System: Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, M.D., Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs; James O. Woolliscroft, M.D., Dean, U-M Medical School; Douglas Strong, Chief Executive Officer, U-M Hospitals and Health Centers; Kathleen Potempa, Dean, School of Nursing. The Regents of the University of Michigan: Mark J. Bernstein, Julia Donovan Darlow, Laurence B. Deitch, Shauna Ryder Diggs, Denise Ilitch, Andrea Fischer Newman, Andrew C. Richner, Katherine E. White, Mary Sue Coleman, ex officio. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer. Š 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan. For more information about the stories in Thrive or any other cancer-related information, please call the Cancer AnswerLine at 800-865-1125.