I Am a Cancer Survivor

I lost my husband my best friend to Cancer over two years ago, helping him go through the chemo, Radiation and the endless trips to the hospital and Dr.'s offices was hard. He was given day to weeks to live and we eeked out 9 and...

Diagnosed 3/12 with Neurofibrosarcoma or NSF. Finished up all my treatments and surgeries 2/13. I've had one post op scan but I always told myself I'd be alright if I could make it a year. I did have a small Melanoma tumor removed...

It seems to me that more and more people outlive their cancer now.  No longer is it automatically a death sentence to get the diagnosis.

I always thought that waiting for results was the hardest part. I have learned that it is not the hardest, in fact, I can wait without wondering now.

The hardest part is having someone tell you that you have cancer. I felt like I had...

As my mother in law has suffered 3 different types of cancer on 3 different occasions we have been looking desperately for alternative treatments, we hear about Coleotherapy. She is on her 50th day of the treatment and even if she has...

I dont know if I qualify as a cancer survivor , but I feel as though sould.About ten years ago my wife Sue was diagnosed with breast cancer, on hearing that word I was absolutely devastated. I thought the end of our world had come...

Diagnosed in 2003 with Stage III Ovarian cancer (epithelial), things seemed pretty grim. My doctors encouraged me but (all in all) it was pretty clear that I was not facing a picnic with very great odds. After radical surgery...

On June 8th 2006 I was diagnosed with stage IV nasopharyngeal carcinoma. After concomitant chemo and radiation, I've survived five years since that time. God is Awesome.
There has been some ugly side effects from this awful disease. I...

I was diagnosed with aggressive non-Hogkin's Lymphoma. I first had one round of radiotherapy, when the cancer was only located in my bone marrow. This lasted for six weeks. Shortly after those six weeks, the cancer spread to my spleen...

I know that I didn't HAVE cancer yet...but was on a one way street to getting it and was very close to the turn for cancer when I found out....this is my story, sans many emotions I can not express into words......
When I was...

I, like all you out there, would not have invited cancer in invade my body, but it did anyway. Noone in their right mind wants to go there. The exception may be those watching a child or spouse go through it. I can understand...

I would like to share this story with all my friends on this forum and
want them to get benefited from this magical Yoga practice which cured
many cancer patients from their stages of cancer

Let me start with a story...

I have a...

January 14th 2007 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I know the symptoms leading up to it was heavy coughing. And in the months prior to being diagnosed I was getting severe night sweats. I would wake up with my clothes stuck...

When I was 11, I had a strange lump in my leg. We went to the doctor, and found out that it was a cancerous tumor. That night, I tried to kill myself. I obviously did not succeed, but I am a survivor. The cancer was at its first stage...

I was only in my twenties when I learned I had ovarian cancer.  The oncologist said I was lucky they caught it.  I went through a complete hysterectomy and endless rounds of chemo.  (For the record, I am not one...

I met my husband in October of 2010, and in February of 2011 he proposed to me. I was so excited to start planning our wedding I could hardly contain myself. During that time I had been working at the local Children's Hospital as a...

In Aug '11 I was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer. At that time I was given a 28% 5yr survival rate...which later dropped down to 18%. I was told to prepare for the worst. I had to deal with the nightmare of preparing a will & the...

Words cannot describe the shock you feel when first receiving your diagnosis. For me, it was mind-numbing. I literally could not think. For the first few days I went through a series of emotions, ranging from shock to fear, to pure red...

I survived it in 94. The same thing Lance Armstrong (multiple Tour De France winner) had. Personally, I dont care for his public service announcements, making him sound like he did something great by surviving it. I was lucky enough to...

i am 10 years old and I use to have Leukemia. I fight it though it came back four times so far but im not going to stop fighting. Some day i want to find a cure for it. They say the most i will live to is 15. so I have to do everything...