Category: General Health

Staying healthy and fit is the need of the hour. Read blogs by health experts and gain knowledge on the mantra of healthy living. Prevention is better than cure!

Proper Diet & Exercise may avoid Cancer….

Diet&Excercise

  • Your active lifestyle may lower your chances of getting cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
  • Being physically active for at least 150 minutes of moderate activity lowers your chances of getting colon, esophageal or pancreas cancers.
  • Your healthy weight status helps lower your chances of getting cancer.
    Limiting your intake of red meat and avoiding processed meat is a positive step to a healthier life. Continue working towards filling your plate with more plant foods, and use meat as a side dish rather than as the main course.
  • Eating at least 2.5 cups of vegetables each day helps you lower your chances of getting cancer.
  • Avoiding alcohol is a smart decision. Drinking alcohol my increase your risk of developing certain cancers.

Supportive Cancer Care

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Supportive care makes excellent cancer care possible, supported by excellent science to enhance the lives of people on the cancer journey.

The critical importance of supportive cancer care is increasingly being recognized.

ICANCARE will provide the newest information on the symptoms and complications of cancer treatment, methods to minimize cancer induced side effects and common psychosocial challenges.

Supportive Care?

Supportive Care in Cancer is the prevention and management of the adverse effects of cancer and its treatment. This includes management of physical and psychological symptoms and side effects across the continuum of the cancer experience from diagnosis through anticancer treatment to post-treatment care. Enhancing rehabilitation, secondary cancer prevention, survivor ship and end of life care are integral to Supportive Care.

* Alleviates symptoms and complications of cancer

* Reduces or prevents toxicities of treatment

* Supports communication with patients about their disease and prognosis

* Allows patients to tolerate and benefit from active therapy more easily

* Eases emotional burden of patients and care givers

* Helps cancer survivors with psychological and social problems

ICANCARE is committed to make the cancer journey a pleasurable experience.

Together we can…..

Making Sterile Salt Water (saline) for home suctioning/use

Start with clean hands, pans, containers and spoon

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  1. Put saline storage jar and lid in one pan and cover with tap water.
  2. Put 4 ¼ cups of tap water in a second pan.
  3. Boil both pans for ten minutes.
  4. Add two level teaspoons of table salt to plain boiled tap water and stir to dissolve.  Cool both pans to room temperature.
  5. Remove storage jar and lid touching only the outside.
  6. Pour cooled salt water directly into storage jar.  Place lid tightly on jar.  Store in refrigerator.
  7. Pour off the amount needed for each cleaning or suctioning session into a smaller container.  Do not dip anything into the large supply of saline.
  1. Make a new batch every day.