Category: Survivor and Caregiver Stories

Find hope and inspiration from cancer survivors and caregivers as they share the stories of their personal experiences with cancer.

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Gratitude and growth: Spotlight on Bill M.

Talk with Bill M for five minutes, and you’ll probably want to clear your calendar for the rest of the day. He’s that interesting. And that inspiring.

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Guest Poster

How to get over the pressure to be over cancer

Welcome to SURVIVING ON HOPE our new, monthly column from Support Volunteer Debbie Woodbury. Debbie blogs honestly about the emotional realities of life with cancer

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Unstoppable Susan

Support Volunteer Susan won’t let metastatic kidney cancer, brain surgery or even immunotherapy get in the way of life well lived.

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Educator, amputee, survivor

Middle school special education teacher Emily Parker shares lessons and inspiration from her fight with melanoma.

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Get up. Dress up. Show up. Smile.

Ice cream, lipstick and joy – Bridget shares the lessons of hope she’s learned while living with metastatic breast cancer.

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Cancer Hope Network

I am a survivor: Sandra Mosley

My name is Sandra Mosley. I am senior citizen and a three time cancer survivor. I was diagnosed in 2003 with Colon Cancer. In 2011,

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

A family focus on hope.

It’s not a stretch to say that helping is in Charles McGivney Junior’s DNA. In fact, to ask him or his wife Randi, their recognition

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Wedding. Cancer. Divorce.

Ask any cancer survivor and there’s a good chance they can name the friend (or friends!) who bailed after diagnosis. A quick search for “losing

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Cancer Hope Network

truth.

Written by Support Volunteer Marci Floski. To read more of her work, visit her blog The 8th Hard Thing. the truth is we do move

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Becoming friends with hope.

Chrysalis Gala honorees Diane and Tom Bongiorno talk life-changing brochures, business and hope.

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Friendship doesn’t run away.

When blood tests showed slightly elevated PSA levels, Joe Borzacchiello’s doctors were cautiously optimistic, telling him that few patients with similar levels had cancer. In

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

A bag of FU and hope.

Michael Korb was 59 when he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He had no family history of cancer and had been putting off the colonoscopy

Survivor and Caregiver Stories
Brandon Pantano

Puppies, puking and hope.

Jenn’s diagnosis with leiomyosarcoma was as unexpected as the disease is rare. “I was in my last year of medical training, getting ready to be

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