Authors

Expert Caring, Easing My Fears: How My Nurse Helped Me Through Cancer

An essay honoring Shannon Moore, RN [Cape Fear Valley Cancer Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina]

How My Nurse Helped Me Focus on My Own Cancer Journey

An Extraordinary Healers essay honoring Tam Yunker, RN, ADN [Levine Cancer Center, Carolinas Health Care System, in Charlotte, North Carolina]

Showing Care For Your Caregiver

Beyond an Extraordinary Healer

I first met Jeannine Arias, RN, in 1985 when we started working in the ICU at Morris Hospital, a small community hospital in Morris, Illinois.

One of Cancer's Special "Gifts"

Finalist essay written by Greg Frazee nominating nurse Annette Graham, NP, AOCNP, from the Virginia Cancer Institute, for CURE's 2010 Extraordinary Healer Award contest.

Making an Arduous Journey With Lymphoma Easier

An Extraordinary Healers essay honoring Veda Smith, RN [Larkin Hospital in Miami, Florida].

Buses and Uncertainty

Cancer And Your Self-Image: Adjusting Is an Ongoing Process

Cancer changes everything about one’s self-image, but that doesn’t mean it is a negative outcome.

On Cancer, Grief and Motherhood

For a while, it seemed like Jennifer had the perfect life. She was expecting a baby girl and marrying the love of her life. Then things took a turn and she was thrown into single motherhood with a cancer diagnosis.

Lower Extremities

Life is crazy, hospitals are crazy, and catheters are crazier still.

Talking With Our Eyes: Communicating After a Cancer Diagnosis

Finalist for the 2015 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing: Beverly M. Moser, RN, BSN, OCN [Rose Quarter Compass Oncology in Portland, Oregon]

Fully Present in Cancer Treatment: The Greatest Gift

An Extraordinary Healers essay honoring Miguel Lopez, RN [Arizona Oncology in Phoenix, Arizona]

BCAN Names 2017 Young Investigator Awardees

My Journey With Breast Cancer

A Mother's Love

"She is the very epitome of what I feel a nurse should be: caring and making you feel hopeful."

Malecare: Men Fighting Cancer Together

Through Malecare, men are coming together to fight prostate cancer.

Andrew M. Kaunitz on Side Effects From Surgically-Induced Menopause

Kaunitz says that hot flashes and fatigue are the most commonly experience side effects.

For One Oncology Nurse and Her Patients, Dreams Come True

An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring Kim Hess, NP [New Bern Cancer Care in New Bern, North Carolina]

Carpe Diem

A Comforting Soul

IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE to me to put into words just how special St. Jude Children's Research Hospital nurse practitioner Martha May is to my family.

Kristen Harris Shares Her Story

Kristen Harris discusses her friendship with Emily Caldwell Morrison, who died of brain cancer in March 2014.

Rubraca Granted Breakthrough Designation for Prostate Cancer

The FDA has granted the PARP inhibitor Rubraca (rucaparib) a breakthrough therapy designation for single-agent use in adult patients with BRCA1/2-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) following at least one androgen receptor–directed therapy and taxane-based chemotherapy.

Dear Death

Patient's Best Friend: Therapy Animals Help Relieve Anxiety of Cancer

Trained therapy animals help patients relieve stress and anxiety during treatment.

An Update From Friends

CURE revisits people featured in past issues, including Phillip Berman, Callie Caylor, and Edith Joyner.

After 11 Years With Cancer, What Is Enough Time?

I believe time to be a gift, and as such, my sister was gifted more than a decade despite a terminal illness, and I do have gratitude for that.

The Oncology Nurse Who Goes There

An Extraordinary Healer essay honoring DONNA FISHER, NP [SARAH CANNON CANCER CENTER AT RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI]

Comparing Male and Female Breast Cancer

Is male breast cancer more similar or dissimilar to breast cancer in women?