Reading Time: 2 minutesCancerCon Live 2024 – what an amazing experience! This past August I had the honor of being a scholarship recipient to attend CancerCon Live in Austin, TX. It was amazing. […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAlmost 40 years ago, at the age of 25, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. At the time, the doctor told me it was curable, which was encouraging, but I
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter facing breast cancer under the age of 40, I found it difficult to find others who “got it.” Cancer is isolating, scary, and dumb. I often saw no one
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMy work has focused on fertility and family building among cancer survivors for over ten years now. My interest in this topic started when I was a postdoctoral fellow in
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a survivor of four different types of cancers, my grandmother faced the greatest challenge not from the cancer itself, but from the treatment. The chemotherapy and radiation that saved
