Victor
Reading Time: < 1 minute Victor shares his story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Survivorship
Madeleine
Reading Time: < 1 minute Madeleine shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Cancer Takes A Village
Reading Time: 3 minutes My name is Elena Del Carmen and I am a mesenchymal chondrosarcoma survivor. At the age of 25, in October 2020, between my son’s fourth birthday party and my daughter’s …
Resilience and Courage
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am a childhood leukemia survivor, having been diagnosed at the age of 11. I’ve thankfully been cancer-free since 2007 but I currently suffer from a number of late effects …
Now I Know My IBC
Reading Time: 6 minutes Trigger warning: Suicidal Ideation “I’m sorry but this looks like stage III, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC).” Those were the words that sprung out of my doctor’s lips that ordinary November …
My Journey: Battling Cancer and Raising Awareness
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am Amy Nichole, a passionate photographer with a specialization in pet portraits and landscape photography. My career takes me on a journey to capture the beauty of the world, …
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One In a Million
Reading Time: 3 minutes It started with a small, hard bump under my hair. I found it when I was around eight years old. I showed my mom, who immediately took me to the …
Every Moment
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wow. My cancer story… I was the girl that was always just a bit sick growing up. I graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, but that …
Am I Struggling Enough?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m scared to share, because I don’t struggle enough…but maybe there are others who feel like an imposter as well. Back in 2019, I was finishing up college, waiting tables, …
Empathy to Expertise: My AYA Journey from Patient to Researcher
Reading Time: 4 minutes In August 2017, my life took an unexpected turn when I was diagnosed with breast cancer during my final year of undergraduate studies. At the beginning of the summer, I …
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