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She Was Never Alone
Breast cancer attacked my wife in many ways. In addition to her physical health, her self-image as a woman was set back. Chemotherapy took away her hair and her energy. It caused diarrhea, taking away...
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Cancer Therapy: Breakfast Shots With Carlos
“To another day on this beautiful planet,” our waiter Carlos said as our small glasses clinked and we threw back the best tequila in the joint (Sauza, it was Bill’s Cafe after all). It felt good. Not...
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I Was the Sole Survivor of a Rare Form of Cancer and I’m 10 Years Cancer Free
Getting diagnosed with Rare Enlarged B-Cell Burkitt’s-like Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at 25-years-old, wasn’t something I expected. I had a boyfriend (with a whole engagement timeline and everything), I...
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The True Love Story That Saved One Man from His Demons
They first met when Billy was 8 and Birdy was 6, as neighbors in 1940’s Humboldt Park, Chicago. In childhood, they were occasional playmates, but Billy mostly kept his distance. He was dealing with a...
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Stopping the Cancer Cells That Thrive on Chemotherapy – Research Into How...
By Chengsheng Wu, University of California, San Diego; David Cheresh, University of California, San Diego, and Sara Weis, University of California, San Diego As with weeds in a garden, it is a...
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I Just Passed the Two Year Mark After Being Given 6 Months to Live
For those who have been following the story of my cancer journey, I follow two markers. I have been posting about this since April 2021, when I was first diagnosed with metastatic brain, liver, and...
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Blood Cancer Awareness: A Personal Perspective
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month and around this time of year I always make the same snarky aside: To me, every month feels like Blood Cancer Awareness Month as I’m never not aware of my...
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A Day in the Life of a Chemo Patient
Today was my second round of chemo in this cycle. I hope this cycle is my last one! Here is how the day went. A good friend came over at 7:45 in the morning to take me. The appointment was at 8:30...
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Book Review: How to Confront the Fear of Cancer
By Kent Sepkowitz About 600,000 people die of cancer every year in the United States, making it the country’s second most common cause of death, after heart disease. Beginning in 1971, when the...
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Discovery Could Crack Prostate Cancer Drug Resistance
By WASHINGTON STATE The discovery opens the door to new treatment strategies that could overcome this resistance. This could ultimately help extend the lives of those with prostate cancer, one of the...
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Prevention Is Better Than Cure
The problem with any allopathic and some natural medications — they have side effects. This was brought home to me again when I went in for chemo. The nurse explained that they were running short of...
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My Chemo Marathon
Yesterday was my first day of chemo since mid-October. Fortunately, my cancer markers have been very stable and my February PET scan showed some small growths were becoming still smaller and only one...
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Chemo Sucks
I started chemotherapy again last week. The cycle is 3 weeks on, 1 week off, and they want me to do this for 3 months but I doubt I will agree to that long. Last week was my first treatment since...
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Advancements in Cancer Immunotherapy: New Hope for Patients
Cancer immunotherapy has marked a revolutionary shift in the treatment of cancer, offering renewed hope for patients who previously had limited options. Unlike traditional treatments such as...
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Chemo Stopped Working
Recently I went through more chemo. My markers were going up and so I agreed to do chemo again. My markers went down during the first round of three treatments. However, during the second round, the...
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Childhood Cancer Experts Call for More Research Into Population Screening and...
By Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group Research into population screening and targeted surveillance for childhood cancer should be a key priority, according to leading experts in a new review...
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Chemo for Christmas
I painted the above several years ago, before metastatic cancer reared its ugly head. Since then, for a time my hands weren’t working. Now I can at least type but painting is still beyond me, at least...
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Chemo Has Come a Long Way
I was first diagnosed with cancer when I was 36 years old. It was a very aggressive form of cancer, inflammatory breast disease. Originally, I decided not to do chemo and radiation despite my doctor...
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Living With Cancer
I was diagnosed with cancer for the first time 20 years ago. The type was inflammatory breast disease and I was told I had 6 months to live. If I was lucky, I might make it 18 months. Yet I’m still...
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Hovering Over the Sink
When going through cancer, there are good days and bad days. This is particularly true when you opt to do chemo. Monday a friend took me to get an infusion at Texas Oncology because I had woken up,...
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