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Theresa
Reading Time: < 1 minute Theresa shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic.
Savannah
Reading Time: < 1 minute Savannah shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic.
Jewel
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jewel shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic.
Erin
Reading Time: < 1 minute Erin shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic.
Alexa
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alexa shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic.
What Deck of Cards Do You Have?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why? That’s the question in some form or another I have asked since December 6th, 2023. Getting diagnosed with cancer, let alone kidney cancer at the age of 32, wasn’t on my bingo card to
Advocating for Myself
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a stage 3A melanoma skin cancer survivor, I’ve learned valuable lessons about self-advocacy during my journey. Looking back, there are two critical points that underscore the importance of advocating for your own health. Childhood
Cancer Diagnosis: Deja’ Vu
Reading Time: < 1 minute It was a day I’ll never forget, marking the one-year anniversary of my diagnosis with Polycythemia Vera, a day that seemed cursed with cruel symmetry. Pulmonary hypertension. The words hit me like a freight train,
Cancer, Musical Theatre & Other Chronic Illnesses
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am currently in my 12th year of sole survivorship from a rare Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. From where my brain space landed in that time, I tend to look at cancer very differently than I did
A Diagnosis That Changed My Life Forever
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I was 19 years old, I was diagnosed with Type 2/Stage 2 Hodgkin Lymphoma on June 3, 2016. My life and health was about to take a 360 turn. I honestly never thought I
Battling Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutes No chance I was expecting the words, “Nitya, these lesions in your abdomen seem like cancer masses,” when I went to the doctor for a stomach ache. Though I was sick on and off for
Surviving Cancer During the Time of Corona
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2020 was by far the worst and scariest year of my life. We were all affected by it in some shape or form. While I understand that COVID put our lives on hold, it was
Two Years Cancer Free
Reading Time: 3 minutes This weekend is another milestone in my breast cancer journey. I’ll be cancer free for two years. Queue the celebration music and gifs. These milestones always give me a reason to pause and reflect. I’d
It was Never the End
Reading Time: 2 minutes I always thought I wouldn’t make it to 18, wouldn’t make it to see myself graduate, never go to college or have a family of my own. An enemy was coming for me ready to
Helping AYAs Leading Healthier Lives
Reading Time: 4 minutes My name is Erin Coffman, and I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health. My career in cancer prevention
Believe
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was 35 when my first symptom showed up. I was 36 when I was diagnosed, and 37 by the time I did my very last treatment. It all happened over the course of 18
My CancerCon Live Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes This past August I attended my first ever Cancer Con event in Atlanta. I have always wanted to attend one of their events and have always wanted to visit Atlanta so it was meant to
Who Are My Angels?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (Written August 25th, 2022.) This was the day I woke up from a colonoscopy to find out that my issue was not hemorrhoids like I went to the doctor for, it was worse. Much worse.
Tiffany
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tiffany shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic. She shares how she pursues her dreams despite her life setbacks.
Laura
Reading Time: < 1 minute Laura shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic. She explains the story of her diagnosis day.
Victor
Reading Time: < 1 minute Victor shares his story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic and how his mom was his biggest supporter through it all.
Madeleine
Reading Time: < 1 minute Content Warming – Fertility Madeleine shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic. She explains her story about her reflections about cancer, fertility, and life.
Ashley
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ashley shares a poem titled “Not Cancer” at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic. She tells her story of right before getting her diagnosis.
Callie
Reading Time: < 1 minute Listen to Callie as she tell’s her survivorship story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic and how findinig a community of those who “get it” can open up a world of understanding.
Cancer Takes A Village
Reading Time: 3 minutes My name is Elena Del Carmen and I am a mesenchymal chondrosarcoma survivor. At the age of 25, in October 2020, between my son’s fourth birthday party and my daughter’s sixth, I ended up in