Cancer
Care for the Caregiver
Maya Ramachandran shares her experience as a caregiver to her parents and the learnings she drew from this. Caregiving is soul-satisfying, meaningful, draining and frustrating all at the same time. I had been a caregiver for my father for almost 16…
CANCER: A friend who warns or a foe with thorns!
A poem by Rita Banik, Founder, RACE to rein-in-cancer The never uttered word CANCER The word that fills our heart with grief Turns our feet cold with fear The word that haunts and shatters … How long shall we go on fearing? How long…
Cancer was just a part of my story
“On paper, I am better: I no longer have cancer… But off paper, I feel far from being a healthy 26-year-old woman,” said Suleika Jaouad in a New York Times article Lost in transition after cancer, documenting her battered and traumatised…
Turning a home into a hospital
The idea of hospice care in my home overwhelmed me. I was very afraid of witnessing her physical deterioration and her death. At age 99, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because of her advanced age, there was little to do except make the…
Colon cancer at 27 did not stop her aiming for 5Km
Choo Mei Sze from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia surprised doctors with her condition and then even more with her fighting spirit. The TV host/columnist/blogger/emcee shares her tips for coming back stronger than ever. Please tell us a bit…
Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer
Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology at the New York University of Medicine. He had an ocular melanoma (a rare tumor of the eye), the treatment of which with lasers and radiations left him blind in that eye. On discovering that he had multiple…
Goodbye Year of Cancer. Hello Hope!
Death stared at me up close this year, says cancer survivor Minakshi Ray. What did that teach her about life? As I sit back and take stock of how 2014 treated me, I would say, it was a mixed bag. There have been losses and gains. I don't…
Ananda Shankar Jayant : I want to be known not as a cancer survivor, but as a cancer conqueror
Ananda Shankar Jayant talks of what inspired and gaver her strength to deal with Breast Cancer, its treatment, its aftermath "I realized then that I, who thought I had complete control of my life, had control of only three things: My thought, my…
