21st Century Suggestion: Do not post photos of yourself on Facebook (FB) vacationing with your family in Cabo when you are disability leave from your job. Additionally, if you happen to be applying for a job, applying to school, applying for a financial assistance grant or any other "put yourself...

Having supported and promoted nearly a dozen advanced screenings of this film, and hearing scores of personal reviews from within our community, I went in with as clear and objective a conscience as possible.

As a young adult cancer survivor and national young adult cancer patient advocate, dozens of scrutinizing...

I am a pediatric brain cancer survivor.

Unlike every other age group over 18, pediatric cancer is unique because clinical care is based on an age range first and disease type second. On average, 5-year survival rates have skyrocketed from less than 10 percent in the 1950s to 85...

So the new hotness in cancer care is young adults affected by cancer, aged 15-39. Why? Because survival rates have not improved in 30 years (source: NCI, Closing The Gap) and, for the large part, *all* of the strides, progress and advancements we've made since Elvis died do not benefit...

On March 28th, 2007 I went spontaneously deaf in my left ear. Yes. it apparently can happen just like that. It's called Sudden Onset Sensory Neural Healing Loss and it happens every day, mostly to old people. Evidently, the cochlea just wakes up and decides to stop working.

It was...

Life is about choice.

Remission is not a cure.

Survivorship is all the rage.

Why we fight ...

I was 11 years old the first time I sat down at a piano and asked my mother, "Where do you put your fingers?" She showed me a simple five-note...