Martha Carlson

Cancer can magnify problems with sleep and introduce new ones, but there are easy changes you can make to get better sleep tonight.

How to turn breast cancer awareness into actions that can improve your life and those of people you love.

After a cancer diagnosis, it’s hard to find what “normal” means, but by looking at the answers to the basic goals you want to achieve you can find the “normal” that works best for you.

I get asked, a lot, about how to return to normal while living with cancer. I don’t want to be returning to the past since I’d rather be looking toward the future.

Supportive and palliative care are critical for people living with cancer to better manage treatment-related side effects.

How one cancer thriver has found a small corner of control in an uncontrollable place.

A metastatic breast cancer survivor notes that It takes bravery to choose friends with cancer, but she stresses that the love and joy that comes with those friendships far outweigh the potential grief.

A celebrity death reveals how little we really know about breast cancer.

Channeling the fear of unwanted change into the hard-fought promise of a transformed life.

Takeaways from 3 months of video tele-mental-health care during cancer treatment amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Traveling with cancer during a pandemic requires some planning. Here's how I did it safely.

It's not just time spent sitting in the lobby. Waiting is a way of life for people with cancer.

You don't have to be "difficult" to speak up for yourself and get the care you deserve.

Cancer alters the trajectory of your career, but it doesn't have to end it. Here are some ways to find resources that help patients and survivors alike find the next step of their careers.

Choosing the best path forward is hard under any circumstance, but today, those decisions are wrought with additional unknowable risks.

Survival strategies for her best life help this metastatic cancer patient navigate a new world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A friend's call to list all the good things people without cancer have done for those with cancer brings an unexpected rush of hope and happiness.

Don't be intimidated by the science presented at poster sessions at conferences. They can connect people living with cancer and cancer researchers in a way that helps both the patient and the researcher.

Words of courage from a friend who knows that "getting through" may not be the point.

Why reducing your risk matters right now — whether you or someone you love is in treatment or hoping to avoid a recurrence.

Music therapy isn't the same for everyone, so find some joy in the music of your real-life and maybe even push away a moody cancer funk.

Exercise can do so much beyond risk reduction for the person already living with cancer.

Reflecting on the lessons learned from the trauma of living with a stage four cancer diagnosis.

An improved app sends clinical trials straight to the phone of this patient with breast cancer (and she can forward them right to her doctor).

They're billed as "nothing", but for this patient with cancer, the tattoos are daily reminders of her new life.

Think you're in control of your healthcare team? A recent experience reminded this patient that though it's her body, others may not consider her in charge of its care.

Why US cancer registries need to be modernized to help us better understand cancer.

A single question acknowledging someone else's experience can lift the heavy feeling of cancer isolation.

It isn’t easy living with stage 4 breast cancer when people want to hear uplifting stories about survivors.

A prolonged and doctor-sanctioned respite from scans gave one woman time to re-evaluate her life with metastatic breast cancer.