When Gina Danford went in to have an 8-pound ovarian tumor removed from her ovary, her prognosis was grim. Worst case, the cancer had spread and s...

More people are getting cancer and more are surviving it. The costs of survivorship -- financial, physical, psychological, social, emotional -- affect not only survivors and their families, but our country and our communities.

Cancer is complicated. And being a survivor can be complicated, too -- confounding, confronting, and confusing. Even starting with the word itself. ...

My days no longer bleed into each other, but rather stand out -- waiting to be counted -- hoping to be acknowledged, and eager to be added to my list of memories, hardships, challenges and victories.

Anne Moore is an oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer, often seeing her patients for many years past their diagnosis and treatment.

If you ask me, cancer is here to stay. It's not something we can stop, only something we can manage.

Apparently the 'Aha! Moment' is that there's more to the 'cure' than just toxic medicine and a placental discharge back into the real world.

When my brother-in-law Mike was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in his 40s, his life, along with his wife (my youngest sister) and their three young children, was turned upside down. The cancer wave rippled out from there. It was a wake-up call for friends and family.