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October 13, 2015 By: Russell Willer I’ll be honest with you, and with everyone for that matter… It feels like I am lost. I look around for direction, inspiration, and hope, and I get this weird [...]

October 1, 2015 By: Steve Heaviside One question people consistently asked while I was nearing the end of chemotherapy was “Are you gonna go back to work?” It was a complicated [...]

January 22, 2015 By: Chad Hammond Development — it’s a dark hallway of a word. When I asked young adults with cancer to talk about the years before their diagnosis, they mentioned developmental [...]

December 18, 2014 By: Sandy Lipkus The holiday season is traditionally a time of joy and celebration, however, for a young adult with cancer, it can be a time of apprehension and uncertainty. [...]

December 4, 2014 By: Chad Hammond How do we tell our stories of being ill? As it turns out in my narrative research with young adults living with cancer, there is seemingly no end to the many [...]

September 18, 2014 By: Anne Katz PhD, RN While some young adults and most teens are not thinking about having babies (quite the opposite in fact!), having cancer at a young age forces you to [...]

September 16, 2014 By: Jen Rachman When I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2004, my oncologist didn’t bring up the topic of fertility preservation. I asked my surgeon about it when he [...]

August 7, 2014 By: Anne Katz PhD, RN One of the biggest issues for single cancer survivors who are interested in dating is if and when to tell a prospective partner about the cancer. And when you [...]

August 5, 2014 By: Pat Taylor As parents of young adults living with cancer, we strive to “get it right.” To say the right thing, do the right thing… but sometimes we just mess up. [...]

July 15, 2014 By: Anne Katz PhD, RN Dating is scary for some people (well, maybe most people!) and dating during and after cancer can be especially scary. While everyone is different, most people [...]