In this episode of The Other Side of Cancer, patient with prostate cancer and founder of Chemo Cookery, John Hanley, talks to Gordon Saxe, MD, PhD, the director of the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Nutrition, about the power of food. Together, they discuss what brought them to seeing food as an alternative medicine, how it can boost your immune system as well as mental health, and what they’ve learned along the way.

Have you ever been surprised by the amount on your medical billing statement? If so, you are hardly alone. 

In this episode of The Other Side of Cancer, Patient Power’s Executive Managing Editor, Suzanne Burmeister, is joined by Kristen Taylor, an Associate Partner at Pinnacle Enterprise Risk Consulting Services, pull the veil back on the mystery of medical billing. Together, they discuss what happens between patient encounter and claim submission, why it takes so long for you to receive your statement, and even more importantly, what you can do to ensure mistakes don’t go unnoticed.

In this episode of The Other Side of Cancer, MPN patient advocate Ruth Fein talks to death doula Erin Collins, co-founder of the Peaceful Presence Project, about grief literacy and about the benefits of engaging---with onself and loved ones---with end of life preferences and decisions well ahead of death.