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Stories, reflections, and practical insights from life with cancer.

Some experiences need more room than a video allows. Here, we share personal reflections, practical lessons, and stories from both the patient and caregiver perspectives.

PRACTICAL GUIDES

Helpful things we’ve learned along the way.

Clear, experience-based resources you can use, save, print, or share.

Our Practical Guides bring together ideas from lived experience around specific parts of navigating cancer, caregiving, decisions, and everyday life.

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Featured Reflections

The Person Beside the Patient

Cancer changes more than the patient’s life. The person beside them is changing, too.

The Report That Changed Everything

A scan report revealed something no one had told us—and changed how we approached every medical record after that.

The Conversation We Couldn’t Find

We could find information about cancer. What we couldn’t find was an honest conversation about what living through it felt like.

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.

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A reflection can be a starting point.

Watch conversations grounded in lived experience, or explore ways to talk and consider what may be useful in your own life.

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