The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship

Most people don’t know that you’re considered a cancer survivor at the moment of diagnosis. It wasn’t always this way. S... Read more

Mary Lasker used to say that more money was spent on advertising campaigns for gum than was spent on cancer research. Sh... Read more

By the 1980s, cancer was no longer a death sentence. But the question of what surviving actually meant was unanswered. C... Read more

Advocacy can take many forms in the cancer community — from advocating for yourself or a loved one to receive the best p... Read more

In just over 20 years, the number of cancer survivors in the United States has doubled to 17 million survivors, each con... Read more

Facing a diagnosis of cancer at any age is horrible. But for young adults, it’s just plain different. Not better. Not wo... Read more

For decades, the portrayal of cancer in movies and television was grim. If a character was diagnosed with cancer, it was... Read more

A cancer diagnosis sucks no matter what — but factors like income, education, racism, geography, housing, and access to ... Read more