Share Your Story

A cancer survivor reflects on the profound power of physician communication, highlighting how words can either validate hope or deepen patient pain.

A breast cancer survivor shares how faith and community prayer provided unexplainable peace and a new mission to offer hope to others in need.

Explore the complexities of Mother’s Day and clinical trials. Learn how research offers hope and different outcomes for patients facing ovarian cancer.

A mother reflects on the "tethered heart" of caregiving, sharing her journey through her son’s rare cancer and offering solidarity to all mothers.

Roger Klinger shares his powerful journey surviving esophageal cancer and ARVC while caring for his husband, finding hope through community and love.

A three-time cancer survivor shares her journey with Lynch Syndrome and her transition from patient to advocate through a Lynch Syndrome vaccine trial.

A patient facing brain surgery finds comfort in "Grey's Anatomy" tropes and a surprise hospital dinner provided by her boyfriend's local restaurant.

Transitioning from active cancer treatment brings a new kind of uncertainty. Learn how to navigate life when the medical guardrails are removed.

Diagnosed with both AIDS and cancer, a writer finds solace in the Cape May surf and the profound gift of a friend truly engaging with his life’s work.

A kidney cancer survivor shares how a decade of breakthroughs in immunotherapy and targeted research transformed a death sentence into a life saved.

Jonise S. Louis shares her journey of navigating a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy while pregnant with the help of her oncology team.

Shondia McFadden-Sabari of Bold and Breastless shares how intuition and early detection saved her life during a dual breast cancer diagnosis.

That’s what I need to remember: Not made-up scenarios, but that if I’m open, truly open, to whatever life has in store, it will be OK.

After losing her eyelashes during chemotherapy, a two-time cancer survivor reflects on how their return reshaped her appreciation for a small but meaningful part of daily life.

After abnormal mammogram, family history and testing revealed a BRCA1 mutation, leading one woman to choose preventive surgeries and share her experience.

A stage 4 prostate cancer survivor shares his story of positivity and gratitude.

There’s no moral to my story, except to say I’m grateful for good doctors and modern medicine.

My name is Beth Kramer, and I am 58 years old. Over the past 15 years, I have faced the life-altering words, “you have cancer,” not once, but three times.

I live with cancer, but I don’t let it define me. I choose to define my story by courage, trust, and hope.

I am profoundly, fiercely grateful for every day beyond that harrowing diagnosis. But gratitude is not silence, and survival is not a finish line.

Chuck Stravin shares 10 practical, patient-centered tips for managing emotions, information, and routines in the first days after a cancer diagnosis.

When most people think about cancer, they think about survival. What they don’t often consider is what survival costs.

Reach out to professionals, go to safe online sources, contact your local cancer support center. I hope these tools help you as they have helped me.

I was 46 years old the summer I discovered I had cancer; my children were 11 and 8. I was determined to live because my kids still needed their mama.

Living with an incurable cancer that resists durable remission means holding hope and grief at the same time — existing between promising data and lived experience.

I share how an overlooked symptom led to my anal cancer diagnosis and why speaking openly about risks, stigma and symptoms can help others seek care sooner.

My initial reaction was fear: Fear of the unknown possibilities of what could happen as a result of this most dreaded diagnosis.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I accepted there would be things I couldn’t completely control.