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"Cancer Connections"

Essays about living with cancer.
Look for them every other Thursday in the Ithaca Journal.

Head and Neck Cancers Present Special Challenges

A Better Phrase than "Staying Strong"

Cancer and Chemobrain

A College Class on Cancer

Young Adults with Cancer

When Your Loved One has Cancer

The Dog That Loved Flannel

Why is Cancer so Scary?

Helping Those We Don't Like

Purple Ribbons at the Lincoln Street Diner

Helping, Even from a Distance

Groundhog Friends

Cancer and Positive Thinking

Cancer and the Nature of Hope

Many, Many Thanks as 2007 Comes to a Close

Holiday Gifts for Those Touched by Cancer

When Insurance Companies Deny Payment

The Ugly Stepsister of Cancer

Treating Cancer: How Old is too Old?

Deciding Not to Treat Cancer

What to Say When Cancer Returns

The Human Side of Cancer Treatment

The Uncertainty of Cancer

Cancer and Sex: Let's Talk about it

Exercise, Cancer & Dragon Boats

Practical Ways to Help Those with Cancer

Be Honest with Your Children about Your Cancer

Nothing Personal, but Keep Your Advice to Yourself

Mental Illness, Then Cancer

Clinical Trials for Cancer

Advice for Those Newly Diagnosed with Cancer

The After Cancer Treatment Blahs

My Little Black Book of Cancer Resources

If Your Mom has Cancer

What Patients Don't Always Share with their Doctors

Memo to Boss: I have Cancer

"I have cancer. What's new with you?"

Wearing My "Cancer Sucks" Button

Single with Cancer

Living with Advanced Cancer

Cancer and Second Opinions

Don't ask about my battle, ask about me

A Very Brief History of the Breast Cancer Advocacy Movement

 

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