After being diagnosed with cancer, journalist Loriana Hernandez-Aldama learned that living a healthy lifestyle before treatment begins can help you cope with and manage the challenges to come. This practice of preparing yourself for cancer treatment is sometimes called prehabilitation.
"I know too much. I don't know enough." Dr. Stephanie L. Graff interviews Dr. Kelly Shanahan, an OB/GYN living with metastatic breast cancer, about what it is like being a patient who is also a doctor.
The Your Stories podcast series from ASCO’s Conquer Cancer Foundation provides insight into what it’s like to conquer cancer from different viewpoints. The podcasts featured here touch on the many ways that cancer can affect a family.
Sarcoma survivor Valérie Sanja Tettinek shares how pursuing resilience helped her manage the emotional burden of her diagnosis. She also describes the mindfulness practices that empower her day after day.
“Even after I heard horror stories about the negative effects of indoor tanning, I knew they’d never happen to me. I couldn’t have been more wrong.” Ashley Drury shares her journey from tanning bed advocate to survivor of advanced melanoma.
Survivor and patient advocate Robert Harrison discusses how his metastatic prostate cancer is just one part of his life’s journey.
A cancer survivor shares his experience with adjusting to life after his cancer treatments.
Cancer survivor Bryant Wieneke describes his experience receiving immunotherapy to treat metastatic melanoma.
Read the inspiring story of a woman’s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in war-torn Syria.
Breast cancer survivor Christina Moreno talks about being single and dating during and after treatment.
