Overcoming cancer or completing treatment can make many survivors feel like they’re on top of the world. But there’s another very real, raw emotion that cancer survivors feel as well: fear of recurrence, or fear of cancer coming back.
While fear of recurrence is normal among cancer survivors, grappling with that fear can be difficult, especially when you just want to move forward in your life.
To learn more about fear of...
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“Menopause itself...
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When Daniel ‘Joe’ Einspahr, M.D., and his son bike into Virginia Beach next summer, they will have more than one reason to celebrate. Not only will the day mark the completion of a father-son cross-country bike trip that has spanned eight summers, 11 states, and over 3,000 miles, but also triumph over one major obstacle: stomach cancer.
Starting a cross-country bike trip
The cross-country journey began in summer 2014 when...
Musician Jeff Blankenship was playing guitar in the orchestra pit during a local theatre’s live production of “American Idiot” when he began...
I recently completed radiation therapy, but I’m still waiting to find out if it was successful in destroying a tumor that spread to my lung...
Last year, Primus Moore was among seven referees selected to officiate Oklahoma’s all-state high school football games.
“It’s inspiring...
Before I enrolled in one of MD Anderson’s triple-negative breast cancer clinical trial in November 2016, I was in a dark place. I’d been re-diagnosed...
In the last five years, I’ve competed in 10 professional outrigger canoeing competitions across North and South America. I’ve also had stereotactic...
A little over a year ago, Robbie Johnson was desperately searching for the right metastatic breast cancer treatment.
"I’d been...