How can healthy living support cancer risk reduction?
Anti-Cancer Living explores an integrative approach to health and well-being through six interconnected areas: social support, stress management, sleep, physical activity and exercise, diet, and avoiding unnecessary environmental exposures. You’ll take a closer look at each area while also considering how they can connect and work together. Throughout the course, opportunities for reflection will help you consider what you are learning in the context of your own life.
You’ll also hear from cancer survivor, journalist, and advocate Loriana Hernández-Aldama. Drawing on her experiences as both a health reporter and a patient, Loriana offers a personal perspective on cancer care, preparation, self-advocacy, support, access, and survivorship. Her story invites you to look beyond the diagnosis and consider what it means to see and support the whole person experiencing cancer.
Who is the Understanding Cancer: Anti-Cancer Living course for?
- People affected by cancer, survivors, caregivers, and others interested in an accessible exploration of Anti-Cancer Living and whole-person well-being
- Healthcare professionals and students interested in integrative approaches to health and the patient experience
- Lifelong learners interested in social support, stress management, sleep, physical activity and exercise, diet, environmental exposures, and whole-person cancer care
What will you learn about healthy living and cancer risk?
- Describe six interconnected areas of healthy living and how they may work together to support well-being
- Identify practical strategies for social support, stress management, sleep, physical activity, diet and reducing exposure to environmental toxins
- Apply lessons from a cancer survivor’s experience to preparation, self-advocacy, whole-person care and supportive connections
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The course also features the lived experience of cancer survivor and patient advocate Loriana Hernández-Aldama.
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CONTACT
Any questions? Please e-mail riceonline@rice.edu
CONTACT
Any questions? Please e-mail riceonline@rice.edu