At the Patient's Side: Appreciation for the Co-Survivor
Writer , podcaster, and healthcare advocate Kristin Flanary—or Lady Glaucomflecken as she's known online—first introduced Your Stories host...
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Your Stories: Conquering Cancer
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...
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Getting Back on the Board: How Kimmy Conquered Cancer
Professional snowboarder Kimmy Fasani was still breastfeeding her second child when she found a lump under her armpit. Just days later, she...
Life is a Reason to Celebrate
When Molly Hones was diagnosed with fibrolamellar cancer for the second time in less than two years, she made two critical decisions. First:...
From a Life Saved to Saving Lives
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...
The Doctor is in ... and on Instagram
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...
Conquering Cancer with Soap and Science
With a rare exception here and there, most scientists will at least complete a college-level science class before making their first cancer...
The Bell: A Viral Journey to Conquering 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 Comeback: How Emma Learned to Love Life Again
The first cancer diagnosis was scary enough. "I feel like Hollywood actually gets this moment pretty darn right," Emma says, recalling the d...
Misinformed: The Online Rise and Real-Life Risk of Medical Misinformation
Whether you find it on social media, via search engine, or on a popular news website, it often seems like medical misinformation is everywhe...
Two Cancers, One Lung, and Seven Summits
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...
Lessons in Self-Care (and Self-Love) with Cancer Fashionista
For patients with cancer, the holiday season can be particularly difficult: How is an yone supposed to prioritize self-care and recovery at...
Big Time Adulting: Kids, Cancer, and a Lesson in Laughter
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...
Strength She Never Knew
Every 14 seconds, someone is diagnosed with breast cancer, making it one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in the world, second only...
Picking Up the Pieces After Childhood Cancer
Prom. Graduation. College . These are just a few rites of passage that high school seniors everywhere look forward to. But for Auburn, a dev...
Three Months at a Time
Gabriele "Gabe" Grunewald was a professional distance runner and a relentless optimist. She competed in Big Ten Championship races, became a...
Skin Cancer 101: Spotting the Ugly Duckling
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...
Bringing Better Cancer Care Back Home
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...
Why Hasn't Cancer Been Cured?
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...
Stopping the Stigma
What do esophageal cancer, testicular cancer, lung cancer, cervical cancer, and colon cancer have in common? Each carries some type of stigm...
A Collaborative Approach to an Uncommon Cancer
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...