

Gailon
"I was diagnosed with cancer in June 2014. I had undifferentiated sarcoma, which is a rare type of soft tissue cancer. At first it didn't...


Gloria and Rhys
"My son was diagnosed with cancer just a few weeks before his sixth birthday. We got the diagnosis over a phone call and our doctor told...


Hana & Karli
This is a two-part interview with Hana and her mom, Karli. Most "I" statements are being told by Hana, who was diagnosed with a brain...


Kelly
"My husband was tough. With the type of cancer he had, people usually last around 6 months. He battled treatment and lived three more...


Maddie
"When I was six my dad was diagnosed with Hodgkins-Lymphoma, which is a type of cancer in your lymph nodes. He battled it for about a...


Erica
"Being a radiation therapist is pretty stressful. Some people come in angry when they are first diagnosed—that’s usually the first...


Sarah
"My husband Keith had glioblastoma, which is a brain tumor. He was diagnosed in July 2015, he had a seizure, then he had treatment for 17...


Alex
“My job is to get radiation in, cover the area that’s delineated by the cancer, and save the parts that are healthy” “Cancer’s not a...


Lesley
“The things that motivate me are the kids. When the kids first start getting radiation they are very anxious. As a nurse you get to see...


Cassidy
"We had a patient who had proton therapy here that I especially remember. He was probably around my age at the time, and he really was a...