In this post, Emily Pinto Billcheck describes living with von Hippel-Lindau disease, a rare genetic cancer condition that has also affected her family, and how she changed her own perspective of her bravery over time.
In this post, Dan Shockley discusses how his experience in the United States Navy helped shape his mindset and prepared him to keep a positive outlook throughout the diagnosis and treatment of his hereditary colon cancer condition.
En esta publicación, el sobreviviente de cáncer adolescente, Andrés Nachón, describe lo que fue ser diagnosticado con cáncer a los 17 años, y cómo su fe y amor por el básquetbol lo ayudaron a enfrentarlo.
In this post, teenage cancer survivor Andrés Nachón describes what it was like being diagnosed with cancer at age 17, and how his faith and love for basketball helped him cope.
Lung cancer survivor Xin Zheng discusses her experience with stage IV lung cancer and how joining a clinical trial after receiving genetic testing helped stop the spread of her cancer.
Cancer survivors and patient advocates Alexandra Kalmanofsky and Dr. Mary Dominiecki discuss why talking with your health care team about negative emotions and side effects is so important, including how it may impact your care.
In this post, Shonte Drakeford, who has been living with metastatic breast cancer since June 2015, discusses how she learned to cope with the disease and live her life more fully.
Cancer survivor Jacky Costello talks about the emotions she felt after cancer and its treatment and how starting her own business helped her find new purpose.
Dr. Cordelia Galgut discusses the lasting grief she experiences after living through cancer and offers ways to cope for fellow survivors.
In this “Your Stories” podcast from Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, Dr. Mark Lewis discusses with Dr. Jonathan Bleeker how having a patient’s perspective changed how he cares for people with cancer.
