The Gift Left Behind

Why I choose to keep honoring my friend who passed away from cancer.

What Cancer Treatment Plan is Right For Me?

7 helpful suggestions for discerning a path forward with treatment.

4 Things Not to Say to Suffering People

What to avoid saying when someone’s suffering is too great for words.

Dealing with Grief After Cancer

By Mikey Conrad
You can’t run from dealing with grief, no matter how hard you try...

Cancer You Dropped A Bomb On Me (Us)

By John and Summer Guidry
There’s a song called “You Dropped a Bomb on Me”...this epitomizes how we felt...

Caregivers Are Survivors Too

By Russ Licht
This website is full of stories of cancer survivors and rightly so...

Caring For Loved Ones With Cancer

By Dr. Jamie Aten
I don’t just study disasters, I’ve lived them. My family and I had moved to South Mississippi just six days before Hurricane Katrina struck our community...

My Seven Caregiver Lessons

By Nancy Nicewonger
For the past six years I have been a caregiver..

Is Cancer a Punishment From God?

By Daniel Nicewonger
Is cancer a punishment from God? Long-term or terminal illness..

Losing Dreams, Yet Gaining Today

By Daniel Nicewonger
I often wrestle with the ways that cancer has changed my life, yet it’s often intermingled with gratitude..

Letter to a Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patient

A breast cancer survivor shares what she would share with someone recently told, "you have cancer."

My Deja Vu 5-Year Cancerversary

By Daniel Nicewonger
Recently I set out to mark the occasion of my 5-year cancerversary. While the moment didn’t unfold quite like I envisioned, a deja-vu like experience gave me a newfound..

The Power of Practicing Gratitude

By Jenna Holden
Practicing gratitude is a great way to infuse positivity, hope and greater perspective into your life....

Healing in Heaven

By Dr. Nathan Hitchcock
Have you ever been in great shape? Maybe you were able to play on the playground for hours. Maybe you could run for miles. Me?....

How Long Oh Lord

How the popular U2 song 40 reveals our universal desire to cry out to God in suffering.

Climbing the Lofty Spire of Hope

By Chris Lawrence
As I climbed the vertical rock spire, clinging to small sandstone holds, I wondered if this precarious ascent was the best choice to celebrate my first cancerversary from incurable cancer..

Thanking Your Cancer Care Team

By Russ Licht
When significant dates, like my cancerversary, roll around, they fill me with gratitude for the people who have helped me along the way and motivate me to find ways..

Cancer Changed My Perspective

By Doug Lee
Cancer changed my perspective, no question about it. It seems funny but I remember the date of when my cancer started, rather than my “all clear” and the chain of events..

Writing About My Cancerversary

By Carolyn Konical-Breinich
I consider January 25, the day I was diagnosed with cancer, as my second birthday and my cancerversary. I was only 13 years old when I heard the words: you have cancer..

The Great Hope Killer

By Chris Lawrence
Sitting in a room with people who had been affected by cancer in various ways, I saw a clearer picture of the overwhelming need. Yes, this disease attacks the body, but even more devastating, it attacks a person’s hope!

Behind the Photos

By Paul Schiller
What drives a man to traverse the country to take photos of the beauty found in nature? ...

Meeting Fellow Cancer Survivors

The Surprise Blessing of Interviewing People Facing Cancer

How Hope Multiplies

Why I decided to get involved in the suffering of others.