
Patients share their emotional journeys and coping strategies after cancer diagnoses, highlighting the importance of support and information in healing.

Valarie Traynham is a cancer thriver and serves as a patient advocate following her diagnoses of multiple myeloma and breast cancer.

Patients share their emotional journeys and coping strategies after cancer diagnoses, highlighting the importance of support and information in healing.

Patients share their unexpected journeys with multiple myeloma, revealing challenges and resilience in the face of a cancer diagnosis.

Hearing that you have cancer can lead to dark feelings; however, others have walked this road and come out on the other end, a cancer thriver explained.

Valarie Traynham discusses some of ways her life has changed since being diagnoses with cancer, and what parts of her identity have remained the same.

Valarie Traynham shares what survivorship means to her, and how the definition has evolved after her diagnosis, during National Cancer Survivors Month.

Published: July 7th 2025 | Updated: