From Diagnosis to Doctor: When No One Was Listening, Jesse Lindemann, MD, Became the Doctor She Needed
Jessie Lindemann, MD, spent months being dismissed before her Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis. Now she's a cancer survivor, family doctor, and advocate building survivorship care in North Dakota ...
Cancer Nation Applauds the Introduction of the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act
Washington, DC, May 14, 2026 – Cancer Nation applauds the introduction of the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act, bold legislation designed to help cancer survivors not just live longer, but live better. We salute Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Brian Fitpatrick, Mark DeSaulnier, and Joe Wilson for their efforts in ...
Outliving the Odds, Rewriting the Path: Tom Warren’s Story of Survivorship and Advocacy
Meet Tom Warren. Six years after a rare cancer diagnosis he was never expected to survive, Tom is redefining what it means to live with and beyond cancer; navigating lasting side effects, loss of identity, and a new path forward through advocacy ...
Webinar – Bispecific Antibodies in Cancer Care: What to Know, What to Expect
Cancer Nation's Webinar Series presents Bispecific Antibodies in Cancer Care: What to Know, What to Expect, with Tara Graff, DO, MS. Bispecific antibodies are a newer type of immunotherapy cancer treatment, currently more often used in later lines of therapy, mainly in blood cancers such as lymphomas and myelomas. This ...
Faith, Family, and the Power of Saying Yes: Daria Ross on Turning Survivorship Into Action
Meet Daria Ross: Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor and Advocate whose work focuses on patient education, community-centered advocacy, and turning lived experience into policy change ...
Research Made Survival Possible: Brandon Hertzendorf on Turning Experience into Advocacy
Brandon Hertzendorf’s path to advocacy sits at the intersection of lived experience, research, and a deep belief that cancer care can and must be better. Born and raised in South Florida, Brandon describes his childhood as fairly typical. That changed during high school [...] ...
The Meaning We Make: Laurel Braitman’s Path from Co-Survivor to Advocate
Advocate Spotlight: Laurel Braitman Laurel Braitman has spent her life at the intersection of story, healing, and human connection. As a writer, teacher, and the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine, she helps medical students, clinicians, and future health leaders learn how to speak to ...
Webinar – Navegando la terapia de células T con CAR: su camino hacia la recuperación
La serie de seminarios web de Cáncer Nation presenta “Navegando la terapia de células T con CAR: su camino hacia la recuperación”, una conversación sobre el recorrido de la terapia de células T con CAR y cómo el tratamiento está brindando nuevas opciones de atención. Unirse con nosotros para aprender ...
Webinar – Navigating CAR T-Cell Therapy: Your Journey to Recovery
Cancer Nation's Webinar Series presents "Navigating CAR T-Cell Therapy: Your Journey to Recovery," a conversation about the journey of CAR T-cell therapy and how the treatment is providing new options for care. CAR (short for chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell therapy uses an engineered version of a patient's own white blood cells ...
Janice Cowden: From Survivor to System Challenger
At Cancer Nation, we are powered by the voices of those who live with, through, and beyond cancer. We don’t speak on behalf of survivors—we amplify those who are already speaking. This month, we’re honored to feature Janice Cowden, a metastatic breast cancer (MBC) advocate whose work in research, policy, ...
