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For Better and for Worse: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Cancer Care

January 25th 2022

By Brielle Benyon

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically impacted many facets of cancer care. Although some changes were detrimental, an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine notes others actually improved accessibility to care.

Here’s to Appreciating Life and the Places You’ll Go, Despite Living With Cancer

January 23rd 2022

By Marissa Holzer

A woman living with metastatic breast cancer describes how the death of a friend’s grandmother reminded her of her own grandmother’s passing and the lessons she learned about life from it that she applies in her cancer journey.

As I Begin Another Year of Cancer Treatment, I Struggle Over Why I’m Still Here and Others Aren’t

January 22nd 2022

By Kelly Irvin

A patient with stage 4 ovarian cancer still receiving treatment six years after her first diagnosis explains that even though she’s exhausted from all her treatments and the related side effects, she knows many others don’t survive as long as she has.

Spare Me the Stories of Cancer Death and Destruction

January 20th 2022

By Michelle Velez

When trying to relate to a cancer survivor, do not tell them how someone else died of the disease, writes Michelle Velez.

6 Ways to Stop Worrying About Your Cancer Returning and Live Your Life

January 15th 2022

By William Ramshaw

A cancer survivor offers advice for those facing anxiety and fear about cancer that takes control of their life.

What Will 2022 Bring for Cancer Survivors Facing Another Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

January 14th 2022

By Jane Biehl Ph.D.

A cancer survivor expresses the fears many survivors face with another year of staring down the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Vaccines to Pills and Clinical Trials: An Overview of Treatments to Protect Patients With Cancer from COVID-19

January 13th 2022

By Brielle Benyon

An infectious disease expert explains the new and upcoming treatment modalities that are improving COVID-19 outcomes for patients with cancer and other conditions that compromise the immune system.

How Other Patients With Cancer Helped Me Turn My Situation Around

January 12th 2022

By Steve Rubin

One cancer survivor describes the impact of the words of support from other patients with cancer throughout his experience that helped pull him out of devastation.

‘Shock to the Heart’: A Cancer Survivor Recalls the Emotions of Her First Chemo Treatment

January 12th 2022

By Jamie Cesanek

After not knowing quite what to expect from her first chemotherapy treatment, colorectal cancer survivor Yla Flores describes the pain she felt in her heart after seeing other patients in worse conditions.

Goodbye Cancer Displeasure, Hello Sexual Pleasure

January 11th 2022

By Laura Yeager

A cancer survivor explains how she was able to intimately reconnect with her spouse after cancer caused their love life to fizzle for many years.