Living with Breast Cancer I was 23 years old when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My mother taught me to do BSEs (breast self exams), when I was 13 years old. It was all part of her talk about the “birds-and-the-bees-and-BSE”. My Mom’s mother had had several breast lumps removed over the years and [...]

Living with Breast Cancer My mother taught me to do BSEs (breast self exams), when I was 13 years old. It was all part of her talk about the “birds-and-the-bees-and-BSE”. My Mom’s mother had had several breast lumps removed over the years and my Mom had some cysts removed too. She wanted to make sure [...]

According to the National Cancer Institute, each year about a million people in the United States alone will learn they have skin cancer. The good news is, skin cancer is curable if caught early enough. Still, prevention is still the best medicine, and we are all aware of precautions like wearing sunblock with SPF protection, [...]

Do you know anyone who has been afflicted with cancer? If so, then you must be familiar with that feeling — the dreaded fear of the unknown. There are many hard questions, many emotions, many thoughts to grapple with. When Katherine heard that her husband, Dave, was diagnosed with cancer, she was filled with fear. Her family went [...]

Are your greatest fears the same as those of the people around you?

CNN ran an interview this morning that caught my attention. Anderson Cooper was interviewing Christopher Hitchens the author of God Is Not Great.  Hitchens is quite famous for his views against the existence of God.  He is also currently battling a very lethal form of cancer.  Cooper wondered if the disease had changed his beliefs [...]

I open up a newspaper or the internet to instantly gauge the pulse of what’s happening in our world. Headlines vie for my attention: “South Africa Picks President, but Uncertainty Remains”, “China’s Milk Scandal Now Seen as Risk in Europe” and “Talks Implode During Day of Chaos; Fate of Bailout Plan Remains Unresolved”. There’s even [...]

Eli Florence is dying of leukemia. It has been attacking his body for five years. He has maybe a matter of weeks to live. As Eli fades, he is confined to bed, barely able to speak. Before he became a cancer patient, enduring surgeries, stem cell transplants and months in the hospital, Eli was a [...]

There’s been a lot of talk of hockey this week. The US Olympic men’s hockey team beat Canada for the first time since 1960.  I know we Canadians are a polite bunch, but that’s going to sting for a while. It wasn’t the first time the country was united behind a single game and it [...]

If God is loving and good, then why did my mom die of cancer? How do you reconcile the knowledge that God is a good God, when you know that there is evil and suffering in this world? Watch Now