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Essays

Reimagining My Future After Beating Breast Cancer at 27: Does Survivor Anxiety Ever Go Away?
“Cancer never truly goes away. There are follow-ups, scans, and this and that. Once you have cancer, you essentially have cancer the rest of your life, even though you may be in remission,” says Tziporah Newman, breast cancer survivor. Read More ›

A Second Chance at Life: Kidney Cancer Was My Wake-Up Call to Healthier Living
Richard J. Smith tells his experience with kidney cancer, which led him to lose weight, be more active, and live a healthy life. Read More ›

A Pink Warrior Shares Insights from Her Oncology Odyssey
“This is a long journey. I felt like the mythical Jason and his Greek Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece, having to fight the dragon,” says 2-time breast cancer survivor Dr. Hamilton. Read More ›

Living in the Now
Getting ready to start a new chapter in 2010, Chris Devero’s life took an unexpected turn when he learned he had astrocytoma. Read about the lifestyle changes he’s made after his diagnosis. Read More ›

A Tale of Two Lives
In a surprising twist of fate, getting lung cancer has led Anne Marie Cerato to have everything she had dreamed of: a devoted husband, a house, a car, fur-babies, and remarkable friends whom she met during her cancer journey. Read More ›

No Pain, No Gain
Thyroid cancer survivor Carly Flumer shares her experience after surgery to remove the tumor. Drawing stares to her neck scar, she has found that lifting heavier weights at the gym helped her gain confidence back. Read More ›

This Is What Lung Cancer Looks Like
Hildy Grossman describes her struggle with the stigma linked to a lung cancer diagnosis and her work, through Upstage Lung Cancer and music, to educate the public about lung cancer. Read More ›

A Disney Childhood Until Cancer Enters Stage Left
Cathy Sherman Freeman’s father, who was Head of Publications at Walt Disney Studios, passed away of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), the same rare cancer she was diagnosed with several years ago. Read More ›

Regaining My Life After a Diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
NHL survivor Carlo Lopez shares his personal experience with cancer and his goal of becoming an oncology nurse to offer other people the knowledge and experience he gained as a patient. Read More ›

My Biomarker Story, and Why I Advocate for Genetic Testing
Wenora Y. Johnson, 3-time survivor, shares her cancer story and encourages patients to ask their care team about biomarker testing. Read More ›

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