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The World's Most Transplanted Person
 My wife and I were diagnosed with incurable forms of cancer around the same time. For me, it was multiple myeloma. For her, it was chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). People have always said we do everything together.
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Breast Cancer at 27
 I am a 30-year-old, two-time survivor of cancer. I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease at age 17, and I stayed in remission for a decade. Then, in July 1996, I just could not sleep one night. Something kept urging me to do a breast exam.
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Good Decisions for Prostate Cancer Communities
 I responded to a National Public Radio advertisement for participants in a prostate cancer research effort just before Thanksgiving 1998. The digital exam and PSA feedback was marginal but a biopsy was deemed appropriate.
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Getting Past Cancer … Twice
 Back when I was a junior at Stanford University I woke up in the middle of the night with intense chest pains and numbness in my left arm. I thought I was having a heart attack. I was wrong.
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Perspectives on Breast Cancer
 I've had the opportunity to experience breast cancer from three different perspectives: as a teenager watching my mother's best friend cope with this disease; as a nurse caring for mastectomy survivors; and as a survivor myself.
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“Cancer is like a traffic jam on a hot August day…”
 I never scheduled cancer into my Day Planner. On August 21st, 1997, I did not read "check into hospital with ovarian cancer.” My to-do list did not say: #1 Pick up dry cleaning, #2 Buy stamps, #3 Get cancer.
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How Cancer Has Affected the Lives of My Friends
 I am temporarily someone who has never known cancer for myself. Yet every day I realize how lucky I am, especially as those around me come into contact with the disease directly.
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Breast Cancer -- Not for Women Only
 On April 8th last year, I went to my accountant to have my taxes prepared. My accountant looked a little "out of sorts". He shared with me that in February he was diagnosed with Stage Two, Grade Two, invasive ductal breast cancer.
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Surviving Cancer -- A Poem
 It seems like only yesterday when they told me I had cancer...and when I asked "how long do I have" they didn't have an answer.
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My Search for Support
 Cancer invaded my life in the summer of '96. At age nineteen I was told I had a growth in my rib cage. Upon removal and study, that growth became known as chondrosarcoma. A cancer diagnosis is tough for anyone, but as a young adult I had nowhere to turn.
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