Health

Emerging Trends in AYA Cancer Care: Fertility Preservation Coverage

By Joyce Reinecke, Alliance for Fertility Preservation

This has been an exciting and historic few years for the campaign to expand insurance coverage to…

United We Stand

You’ve heard it a thousand times before, I’m sure: “United we stand, divided we fall.” And since this week is National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week (NYACAW), those words keep ringing in my ears. They probably qualify as a cliché now, but just because they’re overused doesn’t make them any less…

No Ma’am

Sitting in the lobby of Capitol Hill offices in Washington is an interesting experience. For the first five years of my career I sat at the front desk in an office within the Cannon House Office Building and talked with constituents, welcomed guests, made sure my boss and the legislative staff knew when their…

In Treatment

The Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Journey

Welcome to the club you don’t want to be in. We get it, we don’t want to be here either. No adolescent or young adult should have to battle for their life during their “invincible” years. Trust me, we would…

Newly Diagnosed

The Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Journey

Yes, you are too young for cancer. It isn’t that you just aren’t mentally and emotionally prepared. Our cancer care and delivery system is designed to treat children and older adults. You are entering a…

Where to start…

The day I was diagnosed with cancer, no questions seemed to come to mind. But to be honest that diagnosis wasn’t unexpected.

The hematologist who met with us earlier in the day called me a few hours later to come in the next day for a bone marrow biopsy. What was the first…

The Power of Community

By Erin Price Schabert and Kiersten Gallagher, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

“You won’t understand the unabashed power of a community until you are in one.” –…