Honest conversations for cancer patients and caregivers.
HONEST CONVERSATION | HOW DO YOU DECIDE?
More than one path forward.
Scott and Patty share how they weighed two medically reasonable choices—and the different risks, priorities, and hopes each one carried.
Two Options. No Obvious Answer.
Two options can both make medical sense—and still ask different things of the person choosing.
We share experiences, not prescriptions.
RECENTLY FEATURED | PRACTICAL GUIDES
Before You Trust a Cancer Claim
Questions to help you pause, check a promise, and talk with your care team.
Start with where you are.
Cancer rarely follows a straight path. Find conversations, Reflections, Practical Guides, and workshops chosen for the part of the experience that feels closest today.
Talk: Shared Conversation
Small-group workshops and other ways to reflect, compare experiences, and hear different perspectives.
What You'll Find Here
Read: Ideas & Reflections
Ideas, reflections, and Practical Guides you can explore at your own pace.
Watch: Honest Conversations
Real stories and conversations grounded in lived experience.
Life is lived between scans.
Welcome
Whether you're living with cancer or walking beside someone who is, you're welcome here.
Life Between Scans began with a simple realization. There was no shortage of information, treatment recommendations, or statistics. Doctors, nurses, and trusted organizations helped us understand the disease. What was missing were honest conversations with people who had actually lived through cancer. We wanted someone to talk to.
When we couldn't find them, we decided to become them.
(the caregiver & the patient)
We're Scott & Patty
Cancer has been part of our lives in one way or another for decades. Since Scott’s diagnosis in 2017, we’ve experienced it from two very different chairs, through surgery, recovery, recurrence, treatment, caregiving, difficult decisions, clinical trials and the uncertainty that comes with all of it.
Along the way, we discovered how valuable it can be to hear from people willing to share what an experience was actually like for them.
That’s why we created Life Between Scans.
We share experiences, not prescriptions. We hope that hearing what we’ve lived and learned can help you consider what matters most in your own life.
We’ll be here
when you’re ready.
Whenever you’re ready, we’d love to stay in touch.
Stories, encouragement, and new conversations—delivered with care.