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Here’s how I plan to handle sadness, anger, loneliness, regret and guilt that comes with rebuilding my life after cancer.

My new cancer treatment hardly has any side effects, making me wonder if researchers are focusing on making their drugs more tolerable for patients.

As “Pinktober” approaches, I’m spreading the message that breasts are not needed to live a full life after breast cancer surgery.

As National Previvor Day approaches, I’m getting back on my soapbox to discuss genetic testing and family histories of cancer. After all, these discussions could save lives.

When going through treatment for advanced-stage lung cancer, people would often talk to me like I was a child, or ignore me altogether and speak to my husband.

When my daughter first started cancer treatment, she was brave, but after she understood how difficult it was, she was courageous in continuing.

When celebrities are diagnosed with cancer, they wield great power to bring awareness to the disease but being in the public eye must be extremely challenging, especially when facing a personal health crisis.

I’ve channeled my cancer-related anger into advocacy, and made a “living list” of things I want to accomplish.

I recently came across a shoebox full of cards sent to me after I was diagnosed with cancer. The love expressed by others was uplifting to me.

There’s a flip side to the trauma of cancer — a better appreciation of the small things in everyday life.

My cancer surgeon is retiring. Here’s a fond farewell to the man who saved my life — multiple times.

Cancer is talked about more openly nowadays, and while watching a movie with my daughter, a scene portraying a character in hospice care gave me flashbacks to our cancer experience.

After learning that I had Lynch syndrome and a MLH1 mutation, I changed my lifestyle to hopefully prevent a cancer diagnosis.

The last year was tough, but with a new cancer treatment center and other opportunities, I’m going to sit tight and bloom where planted.

Even though I had no symptoms, my prostate cancer was caught thanks to frequent follow-ups with my doctor.

I’m giving cancer’s “battle language” an update and focusing my survivorship plan on emotional wellbeing and honesty.

I recently was asked to speak at a banquet for my cancer center and saw that as a great opportunity to recognize those who cared for me.

I'm no longer the "helpless patient with cancer," though sometimes I need a reminder to keep myself in check.

After being homebound for two years from the COVID-19 pandemic, I was eager to get out, though I did have many cancer/COVID-19 concerns.

Receiving a pancreatic cancer diagnosis has caused me to reexamine my spirituality, which led me to believe that my life is a line, rather than a single dot in time.

Here's a step-by-step guide on how I drew the superhero that I wish existed to fight my wife's cancer.

Among the many lessons I’ve learned since my diagnosis with cancer, there’s one in particular that I refer to daily. It’s a lesson learned from wearing a pair of odd-looking shoes.

From bald heads paired with lush eyebrows to the typical emaciated patient, there are certain tropes of how cancer is portrayed on TV that bother me, as they do not represent the experiences of everyone with the disease.

My doctor once told me that if you're old enough to fight for your country, then you're old enough to get breast cancer.

As I reflect on four years of “warriorhood” since being diagnosed with cancer, I wrote a letter to my younger self and others who are just receiving diagnosis.

I am still here fighting, fighting hard and I will continue to do so to make sure I have more graduations, more weddings, and more everything that I can squeeze into my precious time left here on earth.

My choice to not undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer was not an easy one, but looking back, I don’t regret it.

Cancer and COVID-19 took away my yearly “benchmarks” of time, when I fly out to see friends and family.

As I recover from the traumatic effects of cancer, I’m realizing that success has much to do with mindset and optimism.

I was shocked at a recent doctor appointment when practically nobody in the office was wearing a mask.