Wellness After Cancer
Focus on Sleep Hygiene
- Sleep hygiene is a set of habits or practices that help you get healthy restorative sleep
- Dr. Carleara Weiss researches the connection between sleep and brain health and using behavioral interventions to treat insomnia in cancer survivors
- Many cancer survivors struggle with sleep during and after treatment
- Poor sleep is linked to:
- Brain & mental health problems, anxiety, depression
- Inflammation
- Weakened immune functioning
- Higher risk for some cancers, worse outcomes for some cancer survivors