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How a Cancer Diagnosis Wiped That Smug Look Off My Face
It took a nightmare about a second cancer to shake me out of my complacency, and I nearly called 9 1 1.
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Kate Beland
Kate Beland does not believe that cancer defines her. She is an athlete, a marathoner, a mother, a wife and a writer. When she is not conducting her three-ring circus act, she is busy kicking late stage melanoma's butt and keeping herself sane through her writing and running: https://www.facebook.com/runningandcancer/ or www.runliftbreathe.blogspot.com
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A Leap of Faith: When It's Time to Reset Your Frame of Mind
I felt like cancer had forced me to do other "uncomfortable" things instead of the bucket list I had chosen.
Felicia Mitchell
Felicia Mitchell, retired from college teaching, is a poet and writer who makes her home in southwestern Virginia. She is a survivor of stage 2b HER2-positive breast cancer diagnosed in 2010. Website:
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Body Positivity After a Mastectomy: An Ongoing Quest
It took years to understand why my mastectomy site looked different. Knowing I healed correctly for my procedure helped me accept my new normal.
Mike Verano
Mike Verano is a licensed professional counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist and thymic cancer survivor with over 30 years experience in the mental health field. Mike has had articles published in national and international magazines and is the author of
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Honoring the Memory of Surviving After Cancer
Fifteen years after my own cancer journey, I find myself balancing hope and grief as I support a colleague newly diagnosed with cancer.
Janet Freeman-Daily
Janet Freeman-Daily is a writer, speaker, science geek and epatient with metastatic lung cancer. She uses her systems engineering background to translate the experience and science of lung cancer treatment and research into language other patients can understand. She comoderates the Lung Cancer Social Media (#LSCM) Chat on Twitter and blogs at www.grayconnections.wordpress.com.
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Cancer Choices: Quality of Life Versus Quantity
When my feline companion developed cancer, quality of life became more important than quantity of days.
Matt Stone
Matt Stone, Th.M., serves as a hospice chaplain with Honor Hospice, Colorado’s only physician-owned and operated hospice. He is married to his wife Heather and is currently in the ordination process with The Episcopal Church.
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Hospice Provides Time and Space for End-of-Life Discussions
At its best, hospice provides time and space for end-of-life conversations.
Tori Tomalia
Tori Tomalia is a two-time cancer survivor currently living with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer since May of 2013. Her first cancer experience was childhood osteogenic sarcoma, for which she received chemotherapy and curative surgery, and had been cancer-free for over 20 years prior to the lung cancer diagnosis. Along with cancer, Tori juggles life as a mom of 3 small children, a wife, a theatre artist, writer and lung cancer awareness advocate.
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Listen for Zebras: A ROS1 Lung Cancer Story
ROS1 may be a rare mutation in the cancer world, but a group of ROS1 patients have taken it upon themselves to search for answers.