Kathy LaTour

Laugh out loud with Cancer on $5 a Day.

An advocate learns firsthand about heart trouble arising decades after cancer treatment.

Surely it couldn't have been that long since my last mammogram.

Cancer patients encounter some direct-to-consumer advertising in print, and the safety information such as side effects and adverse reaction details required by the Food and Drug Administration can be difficult and overwhelming to try to understand.

A program in New York City helps survivors use artistic expression to communicate their experiences.

The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare is a community of artists, patients, and survivors in New York City dedicated to bringing creative arts to people living with cancer and other chronic illnesses.

The book includes case studies, personal survivor stories and information from physicians and survivors.

Seeing every Christmas as a last chance to etch a memory of ouselves in everything our children touch.

Using nature, music, color and other elements in the home can restore the spirit amid the devastation of cancer

Research for Internet-saavy survivors.

Book review of "Here's the Bright Side"

A grim cancer diagnosis provided a new faith in things unseen.

Knowing the specifics of your treatment may matter—and not just to you.

Survivor chronicles her life with metastatic breast cancer in Slapped Awake.

Women need [and are now getting] more than medical care to heal from breast cancer.

Some breast cancer patients are finding help with their diagnosis in patient navigators—a person who has been trained to serve as a personal guide through cancer.

A survivor learns the difference between being cured of cancer and being healed.

CML survivor Erin Zammett Ruddy wants a baby. The trade-off may be her health.

Events and other ways to connect.

It's 2007, and cancer survivors have come of age.

Editor-at-Large Kathy Latour celebrates twenty years of survivorship and reflects on the significance of being a long-term survivor.

Help Me Live tells caregivers and friends what patients need.

When It’s Cancer: The 10 Essential Steps to Follow After Your Diagnosis

After Cancer Treatment is more than a plan to get back on your feet—it gives specifics on what to expect and how to cope with common issues of survivorship.

Survivor first and cyclist second, Lance Armstrong takes on cancer.

Profile of Lance Armstrong and discussion of his book, "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life."

The LAF continues to build its advocacy network.

Seven recurrences over two decades have given Dr. Wendy Harpham a lot to say about surviving cancer.

The children of author and survivor Dr. Wendy Harpham talk about their mother’s cancer journey.

Post-cancer fatigue, a term coined by Wendy, has been her most challenging issue of survivorship.