Our conversation on the word “strength” will continue, but we wanted to look back at some of the comments and perspectives that have come in so far. Continue…

Our conversation on the word “gift” will continue, but we wanted to look back at some of the comments and perspectives that have come in so far.

Our contributors speculated Continue…

Our conversation on the word “wish” will continue, but we wanted to look back at some of the comments and perspectives that have come in so far. Continue…

This is a space where Mass General Cancer Center Oncologist Liz Bigger, who works in Botswana, can answer your questions about the experience of living in Africa, and the challenges of treating cancer there. Continue…

Our conversation about the word “Family” continues, but before we introduce our next topic word, we wanted to look back over the perspectives and comments we received thus far. Continue…

The conversation about what “community” means to us continues on, but let’s review what has been discussed so far. Jennifer wrote in our most recent perspective piece, having a community around every person affected by cancer is a vital part of care:

“It really does take a community to overcome the challenges that patients and caregivers face each and every day”

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This month’s conversation about “healthy” will continue, but we wanted to look back over some of the perspectives and comments so far, to try and get a better sense of the different things this word can mean to each of us, as well as… Continue…

This month’s conversation about what “survivor” means to many of us continues on, but let’s look back on the many ideas that have come up so far, there were some disagreements… Continue…

So far we’ve had a fascinating discussion this month on all the ways we think about “care”. Before we introduce our next topic word (which will be “survivor”), it seemed valuable to write a summary post about what came out of the ongoing conversation, and the ways we see “care” in some ways differently, and in other ways very similarly. Here are just a few memorable themes: Continue…

Our conversation on Optimistic continues on, but let’s review what we have so far. This topic has provoked perspectives and comments with several similarities. Continue…

Our discussion of “Fear” continues on “What We Talk About (when we talk about cancer)”. Before we start our new topic, “Battling”…. Continue…

Our conversation about the concept of “support” continues on, but so far it seems interesting to reflect on where the conversation has gone over the last few weeks. Some of our contributors focused their perspectives on the challenges Continue…

Our discussion about “Battling” continues on, but here is what we have discussed so far. This was an interesting debate, not because there was lot of disagreement about whether battling is Continue…

The conversation about what “community” means to us is coming to an end, and, as Jennifer wrote in our most recent perspective piece, having a community around every person affected by cancer is a vital part of care:

“It really does take a community to overcome the challenges that patients and caregivers face each and every day”

Each of our contributors Continue…

Our conversation about the word Family is coming to an end. Before we switch to our next topic word, we wanted to look back over the perspectives and comments we received this time around.
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