iCARE: Cancer Publications Directory
Building a Community Network of Cancer Support
These publications share experiences of Cancer. The authors/creators are passionate about raising awareness of Cancer and supporting each other.
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Directory of Publications by Cancer Types.
Adult
Cholangiocarcinoma. A rare, aggressive cancer in the bile ducts.
Lymphoma: Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins (presence or absence of Reed-Sternberg cells, large, abnormal B lymphocytes, respectively)
Skin cancer e.g. Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue
Paediatric
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Adult cancer
Breast Cancer
Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD writes After He Said Cancer about how her family continue to navigate through her husband’s breast cancer.
John Saltalamacchia writes Life. After. Life. about grief and losing his beloved wife to breast cancer.
Emma Vivian writes Am I Cured Yet? about surviving through the experience of breast cancer beyond that of her friend.
Kate Harrison writes My Big Fat Cancer Plot Twist. She says, 'I’m a British writer diagnosed in December 2024 with triple-negative breast cancer.
- writes Jenny’s Dying to Live 'Diagnosed with terminal cancer —if you accept the diagnosis but not the prognosis and want to live genuinely and joyfully, we could be friends.'
Victorious Val writes Livin' Out Loud “2x cancer survivor | writer | fitness enthusiast | Texan living in Alaska”
Cervical
- writes ., and is a stage 4 cervical cancer survivor AND breast cancer survivor. Two separate cancers six years apart.
No Regrets Staring at Death Helped Me See Life Instead
On Ephemerality The beauty is in the knowing and accepting the invitation to savour it all.
Cholangiocarcinoma. A rare, aggressive cancer in the bile ducts.
- writes — “a space where I write about what it’s like to juggle life as a mom and a cancer caregiver. This is where the realities of treatment plans, toddler tantrums, and the emotional rollercoaster of both collide.”
Colorectal
Janine Cutting writes New Found Life by Janine Cutting about life beyond her colorectal cancer.
Mikel K Miller writes To Hell and Back: Surviving Colorectal Cancer about his battle with colorectal cancer and the physical, emotional, and psychological toll it took on his life.
David Barrow writes Shit I've got Cancer “The day-to-day cancer diaries of a middle-aged male who's wondering how the hell to react to a colon cancer diagnosis.“
- writes Cancer Card “Musings, meanderings, notes and updates on life with Stage 4 colon cancer.”
- writes Doing Hard Things “My treatment plans, my morale, and the rich emotional side of living with stage 4 (colon) cancer”
- writes “My musings on cancer, healing, and mental health”
“I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in mid-October 2022. I started treatment mid-November 2022. Eight cycles later, I started preparing for a cancer de-bulking surgery, which occurred on April 13, 2023. Surgery recovery took about three months.”
Lymphoma: Hodgkins and non Hodgkins
Jeannie Moloo writes A Full Plate with Jeannie Moloo about the gaps in cancer care, her late husband’s experience of nonHodgkin’s lymphoma, and her own experience of Breast cancer.
Lung
Mel Erwin writes My Lovely Lungs about living truly living with stage 4 lung cancer. Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer of men and women globally and increasingly affects younger people and non- smokers. Mel lives with va-va-voom and writes about diagnosis, treatment, her cancer tribe, integrative care and above all, love.
Ovarian
Jennifer Garam writes Rebuilding With Jennifer Garam and Jennifer’s Website & Blog where she writes about her recovery from ovarian cancer.
Prostate
Anthony Feig writes AnthonyFeig's Substack Have You Seen My Prostate? where he says "I'm on the other side of prostate cancer and I write funny stories about that."
Mark Stevenson writes about Prostate Cancer and the bits they leave out. 'Writing about my prostate cancer because, why not turn a pain in the prostate into something lighter? Sharing the highs, lows, & awkward doctor visits, humour might not cure cancer, but it sure as hell makes the ride a lot more bearable'
Guy Gratton writes Guy with Cancer 'I'm an academic, a writer, a pilot, a husband - and as of November 2024 I learned that I have prostate cancer. This blog is mostly about the last bit.'
Rick Lamplugh writes The Wilds of Cancer: A Journey. For a decade, award-winning indie author Rick Lamplugh wrote to protect wildlife and wild lands. He now writes about his journey into the wilds of cancer and the ways he has found to help his body, mind, and heart.
Skin cancer, e.g. Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue
Bess Stillman writes Everything Is An Emergency. Bess is an emergency medicine doc and writer. She is the wife of Jake Seliger, and mother to the beautiful Athena, who was born shortly after Jake passed from squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Bess writes about life, cancer, death, love, health, and healthcare (“health” and “healthcare” being distinct).
Paediatric cancer
Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour
Jacqueline Dooley writes The Halfway Path "about parental grief and how I’m learning to live my life all over again since I lost my daughter on March 22, 2017." Her essays on grief and parenting have appeared in The Washington Post, HuffPost, Modern Loss, Al Jazeera, Pulse, Longreads, and more
Leukaemia
Elizabeth Austin writes Writing Elizabeth where she chronicles her family's post-cancer life in the aftermath of her daughter's leukemia.
Neuroblastoma
Taryn writes Toeing the Golden Line with Taryn Jarboe about 'what life is like for a bereaved mother who lost her eighteen month old daughter to neuroblastoma, a form of paediatric cancer.'
Sarcomas e.g. Osteogenic
Nerisa Gracia writes Disability and Rizz about her childhood cancer, osteogenic sarcoma.
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