Tag: chemo

Ten Lessons Learned By a Cancer Survivor. Lesson Two: Share Memories

Editor’s note: A Tenth Anniversary Remembrance is a CancerForward series of blog posts attributed to the late Mariana Dieste Mead, MD, who fought pancreatic cancer for four years. In their original format, the posts are excerpts of “Ten Lessons for Enriching Life Learned by Confronting Death” written by Dr. Mead in collaboration with Clare Broun…

Father’s Day, A Darn Good Day

Editor’s Note: A four year survivor of Stage 3 non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Brian T. Ross was recently named the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2012 Man of The Year for having raised over $120,000 for leukemia and lymphoma research. His journal with and beyond cancer is chronicled on cancerforward.org. To read more: http://bit.ly/M6cy20 Father’s Day in 2008…

How I Moved Forward

Hello! Today, I begin blogging at CancerFoward. I’m a graduate student at Rice University in Houston and a 6-year cancer survivor. Social media led me to CancerForward when cancer survivor and former Texas Representative Ellen Cohen tweeted about an award CancerForward had given her. The idea of CancerForward…an online organization supporting cancer survivors…really resonated with…