Breast Cancer
Talking Candidly about my Cancer
London based Parul Banka has published a book in which she openly narrates her encounter with breast cancer. During her journey, she learnt that talking about cancer in the open enables us to choose – awareness over ignorance, courage over fear and…
Love in the Times of Cancer
Mukesh’s love for his college sweetheart, Shachi, remained resolute even after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Here is a Valentine’s Day story to warm your heart. It was in 2001 that I first saw her. She walked into my tutorial class and it…
I decided to win this battle against Breast Cancer!
Mamta Goenka suffered bilateral breast cancer and naturally went through the entire gamut of treatment along with emotional turmoil and pangs of mortification. But she decided to challenge her cancer and the hair loss with her head held high. She…
Is Breast Cancer Infectious?
Rita Banik, breast cancer survivor and founder of RACE to Rein-in-Cancer, had to face this and many painful falsities and misrepresentation during her treatment. She shares some of the hurtful things that people say. This Breast Cancer…
I can honestly say cancer changed my life
By Geetha Paniker, a survivor of triple negative cancer with double mastectomy reflects on and celebrates her 5 year Cancer Anniversary. A believer of being positive against all odds who pens, all that the mind can reason with the heart. …
Life after cancer
By Geetha Paniker, a survivor of triple negative cancer with double mastectomy. A believer of being positive against all odds who pens, all that the mind can reason with the heart. A teacher, turned home maker, she loves reading…
My Love Story With the Creeping Crab
By Geetha Paniker, a survivor of triple negative cancer with double mastectomy. A believer of being positive against all odds who pens, all that the mind can reason with the heart. A teacher, turned home maker, she loves …
I fought breast cancer and won
Says Shachi Marathe, 30, eight years after their unnerving encounter. Her experience. Age 22, File Number BX9059- Breast Cancer Carcinoma Grade 3… this was my identity for a while. It was during that time, lying on my hospital bed,…
