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Miriam Reichel
Cancer survivor and patient advocate
Cancer recovery • patient experience
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Focus: Cancer survivor coaching and patient experience
Miriam Reichel is a cancer survivor who now supports other cancer patients, drawing on her personal recovery experience and on conversations with integrative medicine specialists.
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Bisphosphonates and Vitamin D in the fight against cancer – a breakthrough for treatment?
Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin, and most cells in the body have receptors for it. Some people may not respond well to vitamin D at the cellular level even when their blood number looks fine. The conversation argues that parathyroid hormone is a more useful marker of adequacy than blood vitamin D alone.