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What Would You Do?

A year and a half ago, Cordula Volkening’s doctors gave her a grim diagnosis: brain cancer. Still, having been told that she might have a year to live, she decided to embark on a career as a painter.

Six Miracle Cancer Survivors

We all need encouragement sometimes. What better way than to read some amazing stories of men and women who fought cancer and survived –even when the odds weren’t in their favor. Why do some patients beat the odds? Some go on experimental medicines that help them, but few others. Others take novel combinations of approved drugs that are too toxic for most to endure. The most mysterious cases of all are so-called spontaneous remissions, where tumors vanish without any treatment.

Magazines for Caregivers and Cancer Patients

Coping with Cancer

www.copingmag.com/cancer/ Coping® With Cancer is America's consumer magazine for people whose lives have been touched by cancer.. Now in its 22nd year of providing knowledge, hope and inspiration, its readers include cancer patients (survivors) and their families, caregivers, healthcare teams and support group leaders.

Women & Cancer

Looking for Support? Try MyHopeSpace

MyHopeSpace.com offers cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and their support network an easy way to communicate and share their stories, their struggles, and their accomplishments with other members. MyHopeSpace.com is owned and operated by Foundations of Hope, Inc., a Nebraska not-for-profit corporation.

St. Petersburg women’s half-marathon for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Taking place the weekend of November 21-22, 2009, Women’s Running St. Pete Half Marathon will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and will draw women from across the country. It will be St. Petersburg’s first women only half marathon. Participants can train to run or walk the half marathon through LLS’s Team In Training (TNT), the world’s first, largest and best charity sports training program.

I’m Too Young for Cancer!

There are tons of awesome support services out there with programs just for adolescents and young adults and we're going to tell you about them because no one else does—not your doctor, your hospital...not even the mighty Internet. Why? We don't know. Frankly, we don't care. (It's not their fault, we suppose. Besides, who has the time to search? You've got cancer!)

What to Say When Someone You Know Has Cancer

Ellen Stovall, who leads the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship says “too often, well-meaning friends and neighbors issue orders, telling people with cancer to take this herb or see that doctor.

"If you say, 'Everything is going to be OK,' that's trivializing it," says psychiatrist Jimmie Holland, author of The Human Side of Cancer. "But it's also not good to say, 'Oh, my mother had that and she died in three weeks.' "

Looking for Support?

Events: The only directory of free and low cost health events happening in your neighborhood, this site will help you find health events and cancer support groups in your area: http://events.empowher.com/main.do

You Don’t Scare me, I Have Cancer, a t-shirt

“When my twin was diagnosed with cancer, it was certainly a wake up call. I don't think I would ever refer to it as a gift -- even now. It was two years of so many ups and downs and unimaginable hard lessons, but in turn we finally received the good news of over 14 months of remission. However, I can tell you what I learned from my twin sister is positive -- her incredible strength, faith, grace and sense of humor even during the toughest time of her life.

Blog For a Cure

“So, I haven’t done anything yet, but I think that when I go home after chemo this weekend, I am going to shave my head. I don’t know yet exactly how, though, because I know that if my mom helps, she will start to cry (and make me start to cry). As I do not have any sisters and really don’t know what my brothers would say, I think that I am going to ask my brother’s fiancee to help me. She is the closest thing I have to a sister, and I think she is the kind of person to handle it well.