Pull up a Chair.
Let’s Talk.
Honest cancer conversations for patients and caregivers.
NEW PRACTICAL GUIDE | BEFORE YOU TRUST A CANCER CLAIM
Before you embrace a cancer claim, know what it’s promising.
A claim can influence what you take, spend, or do with your treatment. Understanding what it asks you to believe is a useful place to begin.
A practical way to evaluate the claim.
Explore what’s being promised, what evidence supports it, and whether that evidence fits your situation.
We share experiences, not prescriptions.
RECENTLY FEATURED | HONEST CONVERSATIONS
One diagnosis. Two perspectives.
Scott and Patty talk about what “Stage 4” meant to each of them—and what those words could not tell them about the life still ahead.
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.