Coexisting Realities: When “AYA” Meets “RPCV”
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Jo Dunne, 26, Synovial Sarcoma Early last June, I celebrated Eid at the family home of a good friend. I remembered walking up to the doorstep and being greeted
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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
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.
Frank Sinatra & My Vagina
Reading Time: 6 minutesMost people think they have a basic understanding of what radiation therapy is, but until you become a cancer patient, you don’t really know the half of it. The extent
My Journey with Colon Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen my doctor made me get a CT scan in September 2015, you could see a tumor throbbing in my abdomen. I was told that I most likely had colon
Where Are the Superpowers?
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt all started in January of 2020 when I decided I had to go into Urgent Care to get my groin pain checked out. I must’ve torn a muscle or
Positivity Can Help Beat Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2017, my world was turned upside down when I was diagnosed with stage 3C dysgerminoma, a rare germ cell form of ovarian cancer, in my late 20s. This was
Open Mic: Kyle
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Kyle shares how his leukemia relapse during college had a bigger impact on his mental health compared to his childhood experience at our Holiday Storytelling Open Mic in December
The Panda Fight
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy name is Amanda. People call me Panda. I’ve been an athlete my whole entire life. I did a lot of sports, but my love is track and field. I
Surviving a “Bomb” Drop
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s a Sunday in January 2020. I am sitting in the hospital emergency room awaiting the results of an ultrasound for month-long sore groin pain. The ER doctor explains to