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Essays

My Love Affair with Oncology
Can an oncology center double as a spiritual oasis? This cancer survivor sums it up through the ancient words of Cicero: “In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” Read More ›

My Testimony
For this 3-time cancer survivor, life seems to come in threes: as the third Elise in her family to survive breast cancer, she found support in 3 places during her 3 triumphs over cancer and wants to offer you 3 pieces of advice. Read More ›

How Creativity Helped Me Heal
How do art, medicine, and healing intersect? This artist and survivor knows from personal experience. Read More ›

A Little Help from Our Friends

The Best Gifts
A poignant essay on abandoning the role of “humorous patient” and acknowledging the need to grieve. Read More ›

A 4-Year Glioblastoma Survivor: Hope Is a Great Medicine
What can transform a life-shattering moment into a triumphant crusade to share positivity? Read what this 4-year glioblastoma survivor says is the best medicine. Read More ›

Requiem for My Breasts
From grateful to paranoid, betrayed to apprehensive, disfigured to hopeful, Maire Marran beautifully describes the multitude of feelings after undergoing bilateral mastectomy. Read More ›

Living a Life Undefined by Cancer
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. Read More ›

One Race at a Time: How a Cancer Diagnosis Strengthened My Life as an Accomplished Triathlete
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. Read More ›

The Shriek I Do Remember
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. Read More ›

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