Cancer Archive

Let’s talk about hair. Many people who go through chemotherapy treatment lose their hair. I don’t have an exact number for “many” (I Googled it but couldn’t find any statistics for you); I’m basing my “many” on the fact that almost everyone I’ve known ...Read More

In The Neapolitan Novels, a wildly popular series of books about two friends growing up in Naples, Italy, one of the main characters uses the term “dissolving boundaries” to describe moments in her life when her connection to reality loosens, leaving her unmoored, lost, scared. ...Read More

  Two months ago, three days before Christmas, on a rainy, chilly morning as I sat in the school drop-off lane with my kids in the backseat, my doctor called to tell me that I had breast cancer. By the time she called, I ...Read More

This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/AstraZeneca. “You should have your ovaries removed.” Sitting in her hospital bed, wrapped in blankets, my mother peered across the room at me. I’d heard this before from her. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer nearly ten years earlier, my ...Read More