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Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral.

A good dose of time and small amount of faking it helped me resist some daily cancer fears living with stage 4 lung cancer.

We all want our doctors to be experts in treating our diseases, but what else do they need as they lead us through CancerLand? I wish my doctor knew ...

Knowing I have Lynch syndrome has been a double-edged sword for me. I feel fortunate to know I have Lynch – I have been the first in my family to take preemptive strikes against Lynch syndrome related cancers.

The medical team had reached some conclusions.

A wide-angle view of life with cancer.

A cancer survivor discusses a problem, even with good intentions, of the public's lack of cancer education.

Cancer is a solitary event, and in that isolation lies empowerment, one survivor has found.

Caregivers may grapple with practical and emotional challenges as they help loved ones manage cancer-related pain.

While the medical community delves into the mysteries of cancer and its undoing, we cancer survivors need immediate and long-term health practices that might tip the scale in our favor of survival.

Adding the immunotherapeutic vaccine Rintega (rindopepimut) to Avastin (bevacizumab) may help boost survival in patients with a genetic subtype of glioblastoma associated with poor outcomes.

Sharing your pain is scary, but leaning in to therapy was the best thing I did to heal emotionally from cancer.

Where our intrepid transplant recipient discovers that being a vampire isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Weary from chronic fatigue, chemo side effects and stress, I began thinking of ways to move beyond traditional treatment and cope with the increasing levels of anxiety. Something had to change cause I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

By allowing oncologists to better understand treatment patterns and options, a new big-data system aims to ensure that patients will benefit from the most informed medical decisions as they fight cancer.

Get active in cancer advocacy, fight for increased medical research funding, and we won't need cancer awareness ribbons.

Clear the cancer clutter: Advice from a breast cancer and melanoma survivor.

Being diagnosed with cancer changes everything about your life. Yes, there are those few who have a simple diagnosis, breeze through treatment and then actually get back to some form of "normal" — the life they lived before they heard the words, It's cancer.

Backpacking through Nepal, two magicians discover a life-changing secret.

Walking can help the chemo and post-surgical cancer patient in many ways.

Treatment with a new PARP inhibitor called rucaparib demonstrated robust clinical activity and a tolerable safety profile for women with biomarker-defined relapsed ovarian cancer.

A melanoma survivor shares her experience and ideas.

When people think of cancer too often fear gets in the way of allowing us to look past the cancer itself and to the people who have been diagnosed with the disease.

When you're told you're sick, you're also told that you're an insta-inspiration, and your will to fight is somehow supposed to grow as your suffering does. Being sick doesn't always make sense.

Cancer patients need more than any necessary conventional cancer treatments. Solutions come from integrative cancer care for the whole person. Learn about why, how to achieve optimal health and healing, and some top-notch resources.

Some days it's just a day to cry. But that's OK.

Has cancer changed your perspective on life? What do you value most? What do you most desire?

This is how I became hospital property.

The community of patients and caregivers supports us through our cancer journey.

Better treatment and follow-up are being credited with a reduction in the likelihood that survivors of childhood cancers will later die of illnesses caused by their therapy, such as new malignancies or cardiac or lung disease.