If it takes a village to raise a child, you might say it also takes one to care for the sick. Cancer is at once personal and communal. Disease lives in the sufferer's body, but the experience of illness is shared, often intimately, by our loved ones. And yet, caring...

When I was diagnosed with leukemia last May, I couldn't imagine what lay ahead for me. The last eight months may have well been eight years. It's been a blur of blood tests and bone marrow biopsies, fevers and infections. Any cancer patient can tell you that the disease turns...

One rainy spring morning in Paris, I woke up with flu-like symptoms and decided to take a "me" day from work. Little did I know, I would never return. Three months later -- exactly one year after graduating from college -- I found myself in the oncology ward of a...