Tag: clinical trials

The New Year Approaches: Penciling in Cancer on My Calendar

Editor’s Note: Beth Sanders Moore is the contributing author of this chapter taken from “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope & Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey,” authored by Dr. Julie Silver of Harvard Medical School and published by Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC (September 2012). Click here to purchase your copy of…

With Life-Saving Health Reforms Now in Place for Cancer Survivors, I Remember Elizabeth

Today, while cancer survivors like me are cheering, I am remembering a particular survivor – no longer with us – who must be looking down with great joy for her fellow survivors and in knowing hers was a job well done. Were she with us, attorney and health care reform advocate Elizabeth Edwards would be…

The Power of Words: Communication holds the key to better cancer care and survivorship

Celia Bandman from the Center for Communication in Medicine wrote to me several months ago saying “As a writer I am haunted by Mark Twain’s words: ‘The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning’. This quote from Mark…