
Mommy, Where’s Your Hair? (And Other Questions I Faced as a Parent with Cancer)
It’s one thing to have cancer, and quite another to have children witness it. At age 37, I was diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer; I had a large tumor in my left breast, and the cancer had spread to lymph nodes and a rib. And I had a ...

Ask Your Oncologist About Clinical Drug Trials
If you had asked me in December 2012 if I would ever participate in a clinical drug trial, my answer would have been a resounding, “No.” The very word “trial” scared me off; I didn’t want to be a guinea pig, a test subject. I wanted proven medicine ...