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Tiffany
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tiffany shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Laura
Reading Time: < 1 minute Laura shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Victor
Reading Time: < 1 minute Victor shares his story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Madeleine
Reading Time: < 1 minute Madeleine shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Ashley
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ashley shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic.
Callie
Reading Time: < 1 minute Callie 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
A Board Member’s Story of CancerCon 2023
Reading Time: 7 minutes I kissed the wife and kids goodbye and headed to the airport. Next stop, CancerCon 2023. I got into the Omni Atlanta at about 11pm, checked in, thanked the staff
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,
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
What I Wish I Would Have Known
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was just 29 years old when I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Stage 2, hormone positive with a BRCA2 genetic mutation after finding a lump on a self-breast
My Fight With ALL
Reading Time: 4 minutes In May of 2021, when I was 30, my wife, two young children and I flew from Chicago on a trip to visit my wife’s cousins and my brother and
From Survivor to Inspiration: My Journey to Infinite Motiv
Reading Time: 3 minutes I never thought that one day I would be sharing a story like this, a story of resilience, survival, and transformation. Only a few years ago, I was living a
When I Finally Felt Free
Reading Time: 3 minutes I can remember the chill that ran down my spine. The tingle of antiseptic in my nose, and the throbbing burn running down my leg from surgical wounds. They had
Digital CancerCon 2023 Storytelling Open Mic: Jesse
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jesse shares their story at our Digital CancerCon 2023 Storytelling Open Mic.
Digital CancerCon 2023 Storytelling Open Mic: Harjeet
Reading Time: < 1 minute Harjeet shares her story at our Digital CancerCon 2023 Storytelling Open Mic.
Digital CancerCon 2023 Storytelling Open Mic: Lucifer
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lucifer shares their story at our Digital CancerCon 2023 Storytelling Open Mic.
Storytelling Open Mic NYC: Lexi
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lexi shares her story (in song) at our Storytelling Open Mic NYC event.
Storytelling Open Mic NYC: Simone
Reading Time: < 1 minute Simone shares her story at our Storytelling Open Mic NYC event.
Storytelling Open Mic NYC: Roshni
Reading Time: < 1 minute Roshni shares her story at our Storytelling Open Mic NYC event.