Reading Time: < 1 minuteLiz Jaluague shared their story at the CancerCon 2025’s Storytelling Open Mic. At 34, cybersecurity architect and military officer Liz Halwagay’s life takes an unexpected turn when a routine medical
Reading Time: 2 minutesXimena Giesemann, 31, Melenoma I officially became a part of the AYA community in August of 2016 when I received my own cancer diagnosis: melanoma. I was 22 years old
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
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida in Educational Leadership, I would have considered myself a traditional student. I volunteered in community equitable education missions, served as a
Reading Time: 3 minutesCancer has been a presence in my life from a young age. When I was two years old, my maternal grandmother passed away from ovarian cancer. When I was eight,
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy name is Erin Coffman, and I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was 17 years old, my grandpa was diagnosed with lymph node cancer. I remember visiting him in the hospital and seeing him cry for the first time in
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was a fourth grader in elementary school, my older sister was a senior in high school. She used to hang out with her friends at our house and
