The majority of the people who have cancer have a date or event that becomes the marker for their “anniversary date”. This could be the day they found out they…

Everyone who reads or listens to the news has heard numerous times that exercise is a key component to safeguarding a person’s heath and wellbeing. Although it…

What does it mean to be a survivor of cancer when you are a young child or adolescent? For everyone diagnosed with cancer, the decisions of what type of treatme…

Cathy Nobil-Dutton carries the genetic variant for Lynch Syndrome which puts people at risk for a number of different cancers. She was diagnosed with uterine ca…

Anyone who has had cancer knows that it changes you. It changes all of us differently and in many ways. Emotionally, we are changed by the experience of having…

Today as I am writing this blog, I am in Scotland attending a music festival that I have been attending every January for the past 17 years. When I first came t…

Since early in 2013, when Fitbit introduced their wearable activity tracker, the market for activity trackers has exploded. A few years ago, statistics recorded…

The healing power of pets is real. Everyone who owns a pet knows the special bond that develops between humans and their animal companions. It is really quite r…

In the past month, the topic of bravery has surfaced a number of times in my conversations with people. Perhaps it is because October is Breast Cancer Awareness…

There are many aspects to the initial stages of dealing with cancer. There are the practical issues of deciding where you will have your treatment. There is the…