Bad Headaches= Brain Tumor
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Kyler Noah, 22, Brain tumor, Non-Hodgkin My story starts in July of 2025. It was a regular summer for me. I had just finished my third year of my
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Love in the Time of Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Megan Nicklay, Sarcoma It’s May in Santiago, Chile and the crisp autumn air ushers in an atmosphere of romance and serendipity, a welcome contrast to the frantic uncertainty that
Crowned Twice: A Beauty Queen’s Reign After Cancer
Reading Time: 5 minutesBy: Josie Carstensen, 24, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Two weeks before I was supposed to walk across the graduation stage and receive my college diploma, I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. A
Blood for Grace
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Sarah Grace, 29, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Leukemia, & Lymphoma I celebrate a cancerversary, but it’s a complicated feeling. The date I observe is my first diagnosis, lymphoma, when
Battling Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutesNo chance I was expecting the words, “Nitya, these lesions in your abdomen seem like cancer masses,” when I went to the doctor for a stomach ache. Though I was
Not Every Victory is A Total Win
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn September of 2013 I had begun noticing some concerning symptoms and during a trip seeking a 2nd opinion at Dana Farber in Boston, one of the nurses asked if
A TRIP I WILL FOREVER REMEMBER!
Reading Time: 2 minutesCancer Con 2022. Wow! What can I say?! A WHOLE LOT. This was such an amazing opportunity and truly an experience I will remember for the rest of my life.
A Proud Survivor
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you hear the word ‘cancer,’ your world changes in an instant. I started getting sick in February of 2020 and my condition was getting worse each day. I was
Love with ALL
Reading Time: 4 minutesJohn and I met on a dating app in February of 2017. We “officially” started dating on March 19th, 2017. Not even three weeks later, I was diagnosed with Acute
The Confusing Promised Land of Leukemia Maintenance
Reading Time: 3 minutesI remember it like it was yesterday. I was lying in my childhood bed watching Chopped on Food Network—any competition show with a simple story arc was all that could