When communicating with someone who has cancer at any stage, it can help to listen first to your loved one before reaching out with offers of help or sharing your own stories or experiences. If ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. When Katie Thurston was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer earlier this year, at age 34, ...

It can be hard to find the right words when someone you know and love tells you they’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer. This is especially true with this disease, given it is often, though not always ...

When I was in middle school, I'd spend hours sitting in a dark closet in my bedroom on the phone with my cousin. We'd gab about our crushes, using their secret code names. We'd share funny stories ...

Supporting a friend with cancer can be hard because you simply don't know what to do. My husband was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer in 2020. Right before the world shut down due to covid 19, ...

This year, more than 2 million Americans will hear the scary words: "You have cancer." Let's say it's someone you know. You may be wondering, What's the best thing to do or say? … Or not say? All too ...

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Earlier this week, Princess Kate shared on Instagram that her cancer is in remission. She wrote, "As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal." ...

Lou Ann Restad, Nancy Knoell, Karen Droegemueller and Elizabeth or "Betsy" Murnan are all retired teachers, ranging in age from 76 to 95. They may not be teaching, but they are still working, writing ...

When Katie Thurston was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer earlier this year, at age 34, people kept telling her they knew someone with the same diagnosis. Solidarity, you might think. A ...