Getting Cancer as a Medical Student
Reading Time: 4 minutes Getting diagnosed with cancer is a lot like falling in love. It starts slowly, and then it happens all at once. A few months ago, I was sitting at my …
March 2021
The Importance of Self-Care and Love in Survivorship
Reading Time: 2 minutes My cancer survivorship journey has proven to be a difficult one. I recently completed radiation and I am now cancer-free, but the big question is: for how long? I have …
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The Young Girl with an “Old Person Cancer”
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer a few short days before my 24th birthday in 2019. Being diagnosed with colorectal cancer in your 20s is an absolute nightmare. In …
Why I’ve Decided to Thank Cancer
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Out of Darkness comes the light, out of troubles comes understanding”— Monali Monkad I’d like to thank Hodgkin’s Lymphoma for slowing me down, for teaching me what truly is important …
1st Day Shedding
Reading Time: 2 minutes I had only just started my first rounds of chemo. Things were still very new, not only to me, but to my family as well. For the sake of keeping …
Brittney’s Story for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Reading Time: 4 minutes Thank you to our sponsor: When I got diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, I thought I was going to die. And very quickly because, you know, Stage 4 just …
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Finding True Joy
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ll never forget the day I was told three words that broke my heart: You have cancer. In that moment, everything seemed to slip away. The career that I was …
Cancer Warrior
Reading Time: < 1 minutes VIDEO: Payal shares how her life changed after being diagnosed with Stage I Bone Cancer.