
I'm not a cancer survivor. I'm a fellow traveler, someone who has been deeply affected by cancer, beginning with the death of my mother in 1972. For those of you in my position, you are not alone. We can learn from each other.
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Collage Painting by Jim Cassell. I used this painting for my first post, so it seemed fitting to use it again for this anniversary essay.
A year ago, I opened the Substack app and wrote my first post. At the time, my goal was to get my wri...
Photo by Anastasia Lenova
When I first started experiencing symptoms of perimenopause, I didn’t think too much about what I could do to mitigate them. At the time, all women were told that hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, caused breast...
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Recently, I heard an interview with Benicio del Toro, the award-winning actor most recently nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in One Battle After Another. Over the course of the conversation, he me...
A painting by Rita is joyous and uplifting
In November 1985, Rita was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was only 39 and had just had a baby 8 months earlier. She was “blown away” by the diagnosis but not completely shocked. Thirteen years...
Last week, my husband and I went to visit our sister-in-law, Harriet, at Yale Cancer Center, where she was recovering from surgery to remove a tumor from her colon. This was her second surgery for stage 4 colon cancer. Her previous surgery,...
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A long-time science writer and editor, I often write about cancer and have had articles published in The Washington Post, Cure Magazine, and Cancer Today, to name a few. My Substack is a natural extension of that interest with a more personal twist.
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