Your Child Has Been Diagnosed with Cancer. Now what? Life-altering does not even begin to describe what happens when your child receives a cancer diagnosis. Everything starts moving so fast. People are teaching you a whole new vocabulary you never wanted to learn. After my 8-year-old daughter, Colleen, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in September 2007, [...]
Tips Every Cancer Patient Should Know Cancer patients being assigned individual navigators (sometimes called advocates) is a fairly new phenomenon, with the birth of the first “official” program coming in 1990. Since then the value of such programs has been recognized by the industry, but even today not all treatment facilities offer this invaluable service [...]
10 Things Your Doctor Wants You to Know Some people may get a front-row seat for the cancer experience with a friend or loved one, and some unfortunate people go through it themselves more than once, but for the majority of those with cancer, their first few trips in for a diagnosis and treatment plan [...]
About halfway through the first Touched by Cancer roundtable, one of the participants was relating an incident but suddenly became stymied. She got stuck searching for a certain word. It wasn’t a difficult or obscure word, and it was on the very tip of her tongue—but it somehow kept eluding her. In computer terms, she [...]
Fundamental 1. What type of cancer do I have? Is there any chance that any part of the diagnosis could be a mistake? 2. What stage is the cancer? Is there any way to tell what caused it? Can it continue to spread? 3. Are there any additional tests needed to help develop a plan [...]
Wake Radiology’s Andrew Kennedy leads the battle against liver cancer Recently there’s been a fashion resurgence of women wearing long shirts over leggings, a trend that came and went in the ’80s. They say everything comes back in style — lava lamps, tie-dye, miniskirts, hair gel and Volkswagen Bugs. Although it certainly isn’t as obvious [...]
Hi, My Name Is … Touched by Cancer’s editor is forced at knifepoint to tell his cancer story When I went to college orientation I didn’t particularly care for my roommate. Due to the fact he had a car and was open to an airport run, however, I was able to largely ignore [...]
Diagnosed in her third trimester of pregnancy, this Raleigh mother and her baby saved one another You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who can tell you when a good time to get cancer is, but we probably could all agree that being diagnosed when you’re 31 weeks pregnant is certainly less than ideal. Two [...]
Cancer navigator Julie McQueen makes cancer manageable You often hear people say they had a calling to follow a particular career or life path, but hopefully for those who get into the medical field the calling is a little more subtle than battling cancer. Twice. Julie McQueen is a cancer navigator at the Duke Cancer [...]
Your life may have changed forever, but it’s not over Forgive me everything; this is not my finest hour.” That is a quote two local cancer navigators have turned into a creed, one that is shared—if not the exact words, at least in sentiment—by virtually everyone who works with cancer patients. And if you don’t [...]
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