Okay. So now that TCS is back, there is a burning question. A question that has been personally burning all of us for months. What exactly can we do to stop THE CANCER SHOW? And by THE CANCER SHOW, we mean the ...Read More
So this is my Sister-In-Law Jill. I met her in 2006, about a year after I started dating my now husband. I had been told that she was feisty, an amazing swimmer and killer snowboarder, vegetarian, and that she didn’t always ...Read More
As many of you know if you are following me on Facebook, I'm in the hospital right now with an acute ulcerative colitis attack. It's the first one I have ever had of this magnitude. It totally surprised me and ...Read More
We at TCS have really been interested in the “brand” of cancer. Not just the obviously engineered Pink Ribbon Breastocolypse, but also the power contained in the word cancer – power that needs to be wielded very carefully. This article from ...Read More
Gayle Sulik, whose book PINK RIBBON BLUES is required reading at THE CANCER SHOW, has posted something heartbreaking, true and basic to our current view of cancer. She is such a bright light of sanity in a dark subject. We here ...Read More
A little lesson in the dissonance in the conversation about what CAUSES cancer and what we as people-who-don’t-want-cancer can do to PREVENT CANCER. The list of preventable causes of cancer from the World Health Organization says that top 7 causes of ...Read More
This recent inspiring/horrifying NY TIMES story of a couple in their thirties caught our attention. They were both recently diagnosed with cancer within days of each other (he has stage 3 rectal cancer and she has stage 4 breast cancer). Both ...Read More
The New York Times continues their streak of insightful journalism on cancer with this oddly titled piece on the invisibility of metastic breast cancer. Although most people don’t think of the pink ribbon campaign as only being for people with early-stage, ...Read More
Tracy Clark-Flory's Salon.com post, "All I Want for Christmas is Nothing," is a sobering post sharing her struggle to make meaning during this past holiday shopping season while she and her father faced her mother's final-stage lung cancer. If you've been ...Read More
