A survivor of multiple cancers reflects on her relationship with panic, how PTSD has shaped her life and her character.

A survivor of cancer and childhood abuse learns she is not entirely free of her troubled past

A Canadian cancer patient shares observations from the front lines of an overtaxed and underfunded system

One Woman Finds Trauma in Unexpected Places in Getting a Bilateral Mastectomy

Looking back, it seems obvious that what happened to me that summer was traumatic. I was a fifteen-year-old receiving chemo for Hodgkin’s...

Dread and terror are best dispersed by mundane reality. At the age of 15, as I made the final steps into my isolation room for a bone...

Trauma prepares one for trauma. I have a deep and developed knowledge of suffering. I know what it is and how I want to handle it. I know...

Every journey is easier once begun. So I think to myself and say to myself as I cross another threshold in the architecture of oncology....