
The holidays are different this year for everyone, but for patients with cancer and cancer survivors, the holidays in 2020 are a unique challenge that presents difficult thoughts to contemplate.

Khevin Barnes is a writer and breast cancer advocate living in Vail, Arizona with his wife, two cats and a desert tortoise. He is a retired stage magician and now, a hopelessly obsessive five-string banjo player. He was diagnosed with male breast cancer in 2014.

The holidays are different this year for everyone, but for patients with cancer and cancer survivors, the holidays in 2020 are a unique challenge that presents difficult thoughts to contemplate.

You may be surprised by what you can find in a hot shower, whether it be cancer or the discovery on how to live after treatment.

The greatest obstacle facing men with breast cancer may be … ourselves.

While it may seem beneficial to attach ourselves to the memories of our pre-cancer existence, it does little to help us focus on the here and now.

One cancer survivor finds health and healing in the gift of music.

As I walk around the senior community that I live in, I notice the stark reminders that life is an impermanent adventure.

“Laughter is the best medicine” is a principle that CURE Voices contributor Khevin Barnes takes, well, seriously. In this edition of CURE Community Vlogs, Khevin takes a minute to discuss how laughter can help men with breast cancer find a new outlook on their diagnosis.

A survivor of male breast cancer goes through what he wishes he knew before a breast cancer diagnosis.

Incessant and challenging these diseases demand our equal attention in our lives.

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

When a cancer diagnosis is handed down a new commitment to the cancer journey is made, but for every patient, it's a different commitment with its own sacrifices, challenges and perspective.

Celebrating the five year cancer-free mark for one survivor amid the COVID-19 pandemic makes it all the more important.

Having cancer is hard enough, but "orphan diseases" can add another degree of division and its own form of social distancing.

How can we relax and move forward when cancer and COVID-19 take up so much of our day?

A guy with breast cancer has a simple suggestion for coping with stress.

While patients with cancer and survivors face extra risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are more adept at handling the uncertainty and fear than one may think.

Is low grade stress something we've just gotten used to as patients with cancer?

Hotter than a pistol, words and thoughts have the power to make us crazy. But we can determine how we move forward with them.

A man with breast cancer looks at diet, data and breast density in relation to how he got his cancer.

Can connecting with the natural world calm our cancer concerns?

This male breast cancer survivor goes back to work after a long break to consider his future and find his passion again.

A male breast cancer survivor's take on some promising statistics that show a decline in the cancer death rate in the US, but not for every type of cancer.

One male breast cancer survivor reflects on revolutionary developments from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

A male breast cancer survivor examines the invisibility factor in this disease.

At the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Khevin Barnes advocated on behalf of men with breast cancer, but also advocated for more men with breast cancer to join him.

This massive event for women with breast cancer just may be “man’s breast friend”.

When senior citizens gather to discuss our latest medical interventions, procedures and replacement parts - there's just one way to describe it.

Helping children with life-threatening illnesses find the joy in music that's created just for them.

Facing those drawn-out days between a breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy surgery.

Having cancer is a ghostly experience, and surviving may feel like a shot in the dark.