
At the Patient's Side: Appreciation for the Co-Survivor
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Cancer should be more than just a villain in your story. Your Stories features the unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and caregivers whose lives cancer interrupted. But, pat...

Writer , podcaster, and healthcare advocate Kristin Flanary—or Lady Glaucomflecken as she's known online—first introduced Your Stories host...

Professional snowboarder Kimmy Fasani was still breastfeeding her second child when she found a lump under her armpit. Just days later, she...

When Molly Hones was diagnosed with fibrolamellar cancer for the second time in less than two years, she made two critical decisions. First:...

As a young person starting over in a new country—one where she didn't even yet know the language—young Yelena faced no shortage of challenge...

These days, there's no getting around it: In a society that practically lives on line , it's no surprise that two-thirds of people with canc...

With a rare exception here and there, most scientists will at least complete a college-level science class before making their first cancer...

It started—as these stories so often do—with fatigue. At first, Jace Yawnick simply chalked it up to a busy life and a job requiring frequen...

The first cancer diagnosis was scary enough. "I feel like Hollywood actually gets this moment pretty darn right," Emma says, recalling the d...

Whether you find it on social media, via search engine, or on a popular news website, it often seems like medical misinformation is everywhe...

While his teenage classmates were getting ready for school, then-13-year-old Sean Swarner was watching the water rise in the shower, his hai...

For patients with cancer, the holiday season can be particularly difficult: How is an yone supposed to prioritize self-care and recovery at...

Caitlin Murray has mastered turning life's setbacks into something that brings joy to the 1.5 million people around the world who follow her...

Every 14 seconds, someone is diagnosed with breast cancer, making it one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in the world, second only...

Prom. Graduation. College . These are just a few rites of passage that high school seniors everywhere look forward to. But for Auburn, a dev...

Gabriele "Gabe" Grunewald was a professional distance runner and a relentless optimist. She competed in Big Ten Championship races, became a...

W hether you're relaxing on the beach, taking a hike in nature, or hitting your favorite water park, we've heard it time and time again : Ex...

For Dr. Kekoa Taparra , cancer is deeply personal. Growing up in a remote area of Oahu, Hawaii, Dr. Taparra witness ed his younger cousin's...

Not only does c ancer predate t he practice of medicine , but it may also predate the human species entirely. In 2016, archeologists in Sout...

What do esophageal cancer, testicular cancer, lung cancer, cervical cancer, and colon cancer have in common? Each carries some type of stigm...

Imagine receiving a cancer diagnosis, only to immediately learn that not only has it spread to other parts of your body, but it's also incre...

H enrietta Lacks: H er name is forever intertwined with Black history and medicine. Her cells are the source of the world's first immortaliz...

Long before he was a world-renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa was a 5-year-old boy selling food at gas stations in his nat...

Athlete, professional climber, reality show participant, competitor, physician, and cancer survivor: Favia Dubyk embodies the definition of...

By the time internet-comedy power-couple Kristin ("Lady Glaucomflecken ") and Will Flanary ("Dr. Glaucomflecken ") were 35, Will had survive...

You've seen them: the pink ribbons pinned to your senator's suit jacket. Runners dressed in head-to-toe pink athletic gear, racing for a cur...

As a little girl, Kenedi loves eating ice cream , draw ing stories about her family's chickens , and playing with her sister. But at age 7 ,...

Imagine you—or a loved one—receives a cancer diagnosis. Overnight, you find yourself trying to become an oncology expert, desperately lookin...

For patients with oral cancer s , treatment is often just the beginning of their journey . Even after they emerge cancer-free, many still fa...

NBC journalist Craig Melvin 's 43-year-old brother, Lawrence Meadows, passed away from colorectal cancer in 2020. Since then, Craig has made...

Support communities for people conquering cancer form a critical bridge between the worlds of social work and oncology and offer immense ben...

At just 19 years old, Anya was diagnosed with Erdheim -Chester disease (ECD), an extremely rare and incurable blood cancer . After three yea...

For some families, cancer is in their genes. But this didn't stop Hattie Sherman from conquering it. Hattie is a third-generation survivor o...

In 2022, one of our most popular Your Stories episodes was the conversation featuring Dr. Karen Winkfield, who is a Biden -appointed member...

Lillian Kreppel had to advocate for herself and seek a second opinion before receiving a delayed diagnosis : HPV-related stage II anal cance...

Less than 1% of patients diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) – the most aggressive type of brain cancer – live longer than a decade...

When Liz Beisel's late father , Ted Beisel , passed away in 2021 from pancreatic cancer , she partnered with Swim Across America to help fun...

Dr. Shanu Modi led DESTINY-Breast04, a groundbreaking study that resulted in FDA approv al of a promising treatment that can improve surviva...

Imagine yourself or a loved one being diagnosed with cancer by a doctor who doesn't speak your language. How do you understand what's happen...

In 2017, Carly Flumer was a hospital primary care worker and health communication student in her mid- 20s when a few wellness exams revealed...

Mai had dreamed of being pregnant and having a child, but for years she knew something was off with her body — pain, fatigue, abnormal bleed...

A Pap smear during pregnancy revealed Bethany Hart had a rare and aggressive type of cervical cancer. Her baby, a girl she and her husband n...

Mark Crafts – who passed away in 2022 after living with stage IV colorectal cancer for more than four years – experienced an excruciating jo...

Jana Hirsch's mom died from cancer when she was a little girl, so she knows all too well the feelings of pain and loss her 11-year-old daugh...

In 2022, one of our most popular Your Stories episodes was the conversation featuring Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, who is a Biden-appointed mem...

Emmy award-winning journalist Loriana Hernadez-Aldama takes you behind the scenes of her incredible and emotional story surviving leukemia a...

Dr. Nathalie McKenzie is a global caregiver, an innovative scientist, and an advocate for equitable care whose patients celebrate her compas...

Kristin and Dr. Will Flanary are the First Couple of Comedy. Will – aka @DGlaucomflecken on the internet and comedy stages, aka Dr. Flannery...

The scariest call of Brenda Brody's life came on Halloween in 2012: She had breast cancer. Though always an out-going, positive person, the...

In the latest Your Stories podcast, 12-year-old Cain and his mom, Tawny share with host Dr. Mark Lewis how their family maintains hope and w...

On Twitter, Mark Lewis, MD, cleverly offers bits of info on science and his own life as a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (...