
The pink and blue conundrum makes its October reappearance once again.

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 pink and blue conundrum makes its October reappearance once again.

A male breast cancer survivor discovers that looking ahead may be good for our health.

Five words changed my life forever.

Your body is smarter than you can imagine, offering messages all the time.

A male breast cancer survivor learns the true meaning of the word "advocate."

A guy with a rare form of cancer ponders the significance of being obscure.

Those of us who live with cancer don't just hope for the good reports, clear scans or positive lab results.

Don't sweat the small stuff, but don't miss those simple moments either.

Breast cancer affects both men and women, yet there continues to be a "separation of power" when it comes to research and development of the methods by which to treat breast cancer. I think the greatest hope for men to come out of the shadow of breast cancer in a very pink world is through the support of women.

Mindfulness and meditation for the masses. What does this mean to those of us with a life-threatening disease?

Why are men more likely to discover their breast cancer later than women?

A male breast cancer survivor shares a note of gratitude to his surgeon.

A breast cancer survivor remembers an inconvenient Mother’s Day phone call as he celebrates five years of being cancer-free.

Stuck in his own fear. How needle-phobia kept this cancer survivor pinned down.

I'm often asked how things are going with my male breast cancer diagnosis. What's the right answer?

Surviving cancer is hard enough, but what about the rare and unusual versions?

Sometimes it takes a bigger candle to shine a light on our disease.

This cancer survivor finds a hidden treasure in death and dying.

CURE® sponsors a fun and free introduction to this playful practice for health and healing.

What happens when the trick goes wrong?

Writing down our thoughts is a novel idea.

I feel fortunate to have my disease in this time of accelerated innovation

I began to develop a daily routine to aid me in my life-long effort to keep cancer from returning – or at the very least, to give me some tools for coping.

Sometimes cancer can feel like a prison sentence.

How we deal with our cancer may be a matter of perspective.

A male breast cancer survivor discovers a challenge even bigger than his disease.

Cancer reminds this survivor that we are much more than our bodies.

An essay on seeing cancer from a childhood treehouse.

A little awareness can help make us immune to cancer scams.

What can science tell us about life, death and disease?