It's November 1, and the table near my front door holds a big bowl of left-over Halloween Milky Ways and candy corn.If you have cancer, you have probably had more than one well-meaning friend tell you, "Sugar causes cancer." You have probably been given any number of pamphlets explaining why you need to eat wheat grass or take this... Read more
Sometimes all it takes to bring hope to hundreds of people is to stay alive after a grim cancer prognosis. That’s what Virginia Hetrick has been doing for seventeen years. In 1998, when I joined an on-line support group for Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), Virginia, who was seven years out from diagnosis, was the... Read more
When the brown-paper-wrapped package arrived, I didn’t recognize the name on the return address. I was weak from chemo and feeling pretty sorry for myself. Inside was a bottle of shampoo and a note from Frances Wood saying she had used this shampoo when she was on chemo and found it made her tender scalp feel... Read more
Do you speak Research? Gayla Little didn’t know the language before her Stage IIIB Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) diagnosis in 2000 at age 44. “When I was first diagnosed I got into a clinical trial immediately. I didn’t know anything about that world of research.” But Gayla quickly began... Read more
At Christmas, 1998, as I was nearing the end of my radiation treatments, the techs gave me a new calendar, a gift for their cancer patients from a local cancer charity. I didn't know how to react. Why should cancer qualify me for a free anything? Why was this charity spending its money and energy on calendars? Maybe the cute kitten pictures... Read more
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