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An author and two-time cancer survivor offers fellow writers some advice on what they’ll need to know if they’re considering writing a book about surviving cancer.

The relationship that develops between a cancer patient and their oncology team is a most intimate thing.

Like the novel coronavirus, cancer is invisible, unrelenting, and always surrounding us.

A pancreatic cancer survivor offers other patients tips he has learned along his journey to help them get through their treatments.

Patients with cancer have a right to choose not to treat their illness, even if it’s not a popular decision.

It seems acceptable in our world to grieve the loss of a loved one, but unheard of to grieve the loss of body parts.

A two-time cancer survivor discusses how survivors sometimes get assigned an unwilling task of being a cancer educator or ambassador to friends and family.

I confronted my oncologist and dentist about the research I found. After doing their own research, they told me that cancer and treatment can weaken bone structure including teeth. I wish I had been told this earlier.

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

If you encounter mistreatment by any of your cancer providers, do not be afraid to expose them. If they are hurting you, they could be hurting others.

While it may seem beneficial to attach ourselves to the memories of our pre-cancer existence, it does little to help us focus on the here and now.

For a long time, I refused to acknowledge the lingering effects of neuropathy. I found a way to joke about it and told everybody I was clumsy. To acknowledge the elephant in the room, I had to admit I needed to explore balance further.

What had eluded my wife and I, and not without great consequence, was the damage cancer had inflicted upon our apartment. Years and years of trauma, PTSD triggers, and bone-chilling memories had snuck in and festered around us like cockroaches.

Precious time, which we cancer survivors know is fleeting, is flying by and we all feel robbed.

Some people may ask if it really matters whether it is related to cancer or not. For us it does.

There's a difference between being treated for cancer and being a cancer survivor.

If we are honest, I think most of us wonder deep down if we are going to live long enough to see the next grandchild, attend an important wedding or anniversary, or finish a project.

Readers respond to the question posed by CURE: Survivor guilt is a topic that is just now being explored in cancer patients and survivors. Did you experience any guilt after your diagnosis or treatment?