When Healing Feels Like a Battle: Cancer and Wounds It starts quietly. You notice a scrape that won’t close. A surgical incision that looks raw weeks later. A tender spot on your heel that just doesn’t improve. Cancer. Treatments. So much to handle already. Then this—slow healing. Maybe no one warned you. That radiation therapy […]
Chemotherapy changes everything. Your energy. Your appetite. Your sleep. Your skin. It can make the body feel foreign as if your own cells no longer know what to do. That includes how to heal a wound. A paper cut that lingers. A surgical site that won’t close. A pressure sore that deepens instead of fades. […]


