Cancer has become my unexpected obsession. But there's an upside to that.
Khevin Barnes
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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.
Articles by Khevin Barnes
We roll the dice every day. When are the odds in our favor?
Do I have cancer? Did I have cancer? I may have an answer.
Is it possible to actually get good at living with our disease?
How do you educate people about a cancer so rare that just one percent of the cancer population has it?
Surviving cancer has a hidden side to be reckoned with.
Winning (and losing) the Academy Awards can be like fighting cancer.
Masculine medicine for the modern man
After two years of writing for CURE, my story is suddenly as real as it gets.
Bittersweet memories for the heart and soul.
A male breast cancer survivor explains why living with cancer never gets old.
Long before my own cancer diagnosis I received this life-changing lesson in courage
Waiting for that next office visit can be stressful.
Attitude. Belief. Courage.
Some quick lessons I’ve learned from a desert tortoise.
Can having a sense of purpose in life help people live longer?
For this cancer survivor, the new year starts every day.
The curse within the cure of modern medicine
Journal writing can be your window to wellness.
Cancer jargon is sometimes lost in translation.
In a word, everything.
The party is over. Now what?
Women breast cancer survivors explain what they want to hear from the men in their lives.
Catching this bug of helping patients with cancer just may be the healthiest thing you can do.
A former competitive runner discovers the healing link between mastectomies, meditation and marathons.
September is national Ovarian Cancer Month. My wife died of ovarian cancer at the age of 47. Her final wish was to swim with crocodiles. This is her story.
This male breast cancer survivor spent a year in residence in a Zen Buddhist Temple. Then he got cancer. Here’s what he learned.
Male breast cancer survivor Khevin Barnes asked a lot of questions — but he forgot to ask this one.
What do these numbers really mean?
Our cancer clock never stops ticking, but we can stop looking.
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