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Living a Life Undefined by Cancer
Patient StoriesOnline Only
My aspiration to be a loving husband and father, as well as an eager preceptor and mentor, was the same after my diagnosis as it had been before. We can choose to live a life undefined by cancer.
Requiem for My Breasts
Patient StoriesOnline Only
From grateful to paranoid, betrayed to apprehensive, disfigured to hopeful, Maire Marran beautifully describes the multitude of feelings after undergoing bilateral mastectomy.
The Shriek I Do Remember
Patient StoriesTesticular Cancer
Parsing through tough decades-old memories, Brian Sluga takes us through what it was like to be diagnosed with testicular cancer in his 20s and to end up on the other side as a survivor.
One Race at a Time: How a Cancer Diagnosis Strengthened My Life as an Accomplished Triathlete
Patient StoriesKidney Cancer
By 2012, Mike Morris has completed a triathlon in all 50 states. In 2015, he hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro. Then, a CT scan showed that he had metastatic renal-cell carcinoma that spread to his brain.
When Cancer Asked Me What I Was Made Of
Patient StoriesBreast Cancer
After a 20-year career as a biomedical breast cancer researcher, Dr. Dana Brantley-Sieders was diagnosed with breast cancer and discovered that her scientific expertise didn’t prepare her for the challenges she faced as a patient.
My Race to Be Cancer-Free
Patient StoriesBreast Cancer
Sara Gilles, an athlete and physical therapist who completed several Ironman triathlons, was shocked by her breast cancer diagnosis in her early 50s. Her husband had to tell others about her diagnosis, because she was too traumatized to say “I have breast cancer.”
Listening to Yourself: Lessons from My Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Patient StoriesBreast Cancer
Ann Glover found a lump on her chest in 2020, and learned the negative emotional impact a doctor can have on a patient by delivering news in an uncaring manner.
I Found a Lump on My Left Breast Yesterday
Patient StoriesBreast CancerFamily Members
Dr. Gwamna lost her younger sister to breast cancer and a friend to ovarian cancer that spread to her stomach, so when she discovered a lump on her breast she was frozen in fear.
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