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In case you've missed out on what’s been going on at I Had Cancer, here is a quick recap. Please reach out to us if you have any questions, comments or requests for our team!

Recent Blog Posts (please email emily@ihadcancer.com to learn more)

• Two Teen Cancer Survivors Attend a Prom To Remember- Prom is a high school experience that many people many never forget but it is something many young cancer patients do not get a chance to attend. Luckily there are organizations that help provide these young survivors with a prom and a night to remember. 

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  3 Things NOT To Say To Cancer Patients- There are certain phrases that people with cancer are used to hearing, including "you'll be fine" "it's the good kind" and "you're so brave." Read more to find out why many people dislike these well-intended messages. 

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  20 Inspirational Quotes for Cancer Survivors, Fighters & Caregivers-When you're dealing with cancer, a daily dose of inspiration may make a big difference in your outlook on life. Share these inspiring words with a fighter in your life to lift them higher during their cancer journey. 

Recent Dear Cancer Messages (What do you have to say to cancer? Let it out.)

• Dear Cancer, I hate you ! why have you come back? 3 times is 3 times too many. For God's sake wasn't the breast cancer and mastectomy enough now you come creeping back into each lung. Well you have another fight on your hands, not content with a new lung cancer in the right lung, after breast cancer you now sneakily spread into the left lung. Be warned, this ends now! Don't you dare spread any where else! I have a life to live, grandchildren to watch grow up and I'm not ready to go yet, THE FIGHT CONTINUES !!!!!!!! (click here to comment)

• Dear Cancer On July 15, 1991 doctors from my Bone Marrow Transplant unit entered my room with about 4 implements that looked like 4 really big turkey basters.(click here to comment)  

• Dear Cancer, You have been out of my life for 9 years and I am more than grateful that I am NEVER going to have to have you in my body again. I am not scared of you! (click here to comment) 

Recent Facebook posts (Don't forget to Like us on FB!)

• "Finally hit my one year anniversary. Not a day goes by that I don't count every blessing I have." - Jessica, Stage IV Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Survivor

  Happy Cancerversary, Jessica!! (I Had Cancer Facebook Page)

• "I was told that the tumor was cancer and that I had squamous cell carcinoma stage 2. One week later I found out I was pregnant. How does one deal with being told you have cancer, oh and by the way you're pregnant? I was given 3 options: abort baby and start treatment, keep baby and no treatment which means we could both die or keep baby and have treatment and hope for the best. 8/14/13 was my last chemo and on 9/30/13 my healthy, perfect little miracle by was born. God was with me I know for a fact. Cancer may have taken my spirit and many other things but looking at my miracle baby, I know I made the right decision." (I Had Cancer Facebook Page)

Recent Discussion Questions (Ask anything you want on our discussion board.)

• Hello all! Here i am for my friend who has finished his last round of chemo in February 2015. and got relief from this killing disease. but Unfortunately! now she got sick last month and not feeling right. She had a great pain in chest and the doctors said he's still and remain a cancer patient. So is there anyone else who can advice me or share his/her experience about this??  (click here to answer)

• Has anyone ever had their port "flip" over and over and then have to have surgery to correct it? Monday I am having mine taken out and a new one put it, SO FRUSTRATING!! I have completed 7 weeks of chemo and radiation (5days a week) which now I'm just in the limbo waiting stage... Why must this happen? I don't even want a stupid port unless it leads to a world of NON CANCER! Blarg.... (click here to answer)
• Hi all, It is finally time for me to ask the question(s) that's been bugging me all these years. Why do I, at times, wish that I would've died from cancer. That I would die fighting instead of surviving and having to live with this feeling. Let me share a little bit of my story: (click here to answer) 

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 -The IHC Team