Caregiving

Here, Lea White shares her Extraordinary Healer nomination essay of her oncology nurse, Cindy DeLeon Trevino, ANP-BC, AOCNP, BMTCN, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

The legendary broadcast journalist Katie Couric sat down with CURE® to talk about founding the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health in honor of her late husband.

Katie Couric reflects on life and lessons learned after losing her husband to cancer.

The legendary broadcast journalist Katie Couric opened up about what she wishes she’d known and wishes she could tell her younger self when her husband was first diagnosed with cancer.

“It takes a special kind of person to be an oncology nurse,” wrote Donna Hornbuckle in her nomination essay of Julie Burris, RN for CURE®’s 2019 Extraordinary Healer® Award. "She gives the gift of time to every patient."

The legendary broadcast journalist Katie Couric sat down with CURE® to discuss her advocacy work with Stand Up To Cancer and the “With Love, Me” campaign and why they are so special to her.

Losing both my parents when I was so young led me to what would become my life’s purpose. Advocating for patients with cancer became my motivation and my mission.

The merging of MyLifeLine.org with Cancer Support Community facilitates more comprehensive social and emotional support for patients and caregivers affected by cancer.

How a dog provides unconditional love, comfort and life lessons in caring for this patient with stage 4 cancer.

Those people who may seem like a burden while you navigate the new normal that is life with cancer may be the very people who support you through this journey. For the caregivers out there: try to maintain your autonomy.

Katie Couric discussed the many challenges she faced while being a caregiver to her husband during his nine-month battle with colorectal cancer and shared how her career helped her to cope with the loss and turmoil in her life.

As I have gone through this cancer journey, I have realized that people don’t know what to say or do when a loved one has cancer. I can speak out on my firsthand experiences and offer some advice.

Moving on while letting go of being a 25-year-old caregiver back to being a young woman.

Katie Couric spoke about the challenges she faced while caring for her late husband while maintaining a career and taking care of her daughters’ needs during their family’s unfortunate circumstances.

Cancer is a huge, life-changing event for a family and the power of the experience in a young person’s life should not be underestimated. What is a semester at college compared to the learning and self-understanding that comes from being with your family in such a stressful time?

What a force they were, those two daughters of ours: that little nine-year-old kid Valerie, gone from bone cancer and the more grown-up 37-year-old Stacy, cut off by breast cancer. When we talk of them, however, it is often with a slight grin.

Just as we tell the person that we love enduring cancer that they are not alone, as caregivers, neither are we.

A devoted husband and caregiver shares the poetry he wrote for his beloved wife, Mary Lee, after doctors gave her 18 to 36 months to live.

My tips and experience as a new acupuncture patient follow as a potential guide to getting beyond any fear of the procedure and potentially understanding the benefits of multiple sessions.

Remembering to remain present through cancer.

This essay was written by Maria Campos nominating Mary Kernan, RN, OCN, of Smilow Cancer Center At Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, Connecticut, for CURE®'s Extraordinary Healer® Award.

"Alvin David, B.S.N., RN-BC, wrote this exemplar as part of his promotion to clinical nurse 3. I will let his words do the talking, as they reveal his true essence as a nurse, colleague, preceptor, friend, father, husband and extraordinary healer," wrote Margie McDonald, M.S.N., RN, CBCN of Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth.

Two husbands embrace changing and challenging roles at home when they learn of their spouses’ cancer diagnoses.

Being a caregiver and survivor takes adjusting to the diagnosis of the "C" word. Until there is a cure for cancer, may we all do our best to put one breath and foot in front of another.

An interview with Angela Hammack, B.S.N., RN, OCN.

In this nomination essay for the CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award, Cora Beth Hartfield honors finalist Angela Hammack, B.S.N., RN, OCN.

In essays by patients and colleagues, three nurses were honored for their generosity and life-changing compassion.

Becoming a caregiving to a loved one with cancer feels as if my life has been turned upside down like a snow globe and I am left to hold on to the stable anchors.

Family and friends receive the cancer diagnosis right along with the patient. People change, relationships change and life as you know it may never be the same.

Productivity loss among parent caregivers associated with poor health-related quality of life in pediatric advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma.