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Most Recent Blog Posts

3 Reminders For Cancer Survivors At The Start of A New Year

Carpe Diem | CancerOwl Comic

The Good Girl's Guide To Bad Boobs

Recent Dear Cancer Messages

Dear Cancer, Nov.21.2016 was when I heard the words cancer free for the second time in my life. I'm a young adult in remission embracing a new normal but yet I didn't leave the battlefield behind. It will always be a part of me.

Dear Cancer, Why can't you leave our family alone? I should be celebrating that I beat you, and now I am worried about my Niece who is battling you for the second time. You give me guilt for not having all the weird side effects and being able to get on with my life while she suffers during treatment.

Recent Facebook Posts

"Kicking cancer in the Butt. Three years ago I was fighting stage 4 nasopharyngeal carcinoma ( the tumor was the size of an apple). I had 39 radiation treatments (to my head and neck) and up to this point 149hrs of chemo. My partner at the firehouse and my son set out to help me do a 5k. My goal was 1hr. We crossed the line at 59:13. The next morning I went in for my 2nd to last 96hr chemo treatment. It's not how you fight or how much heart you have while battling Cancer, sometimes it's just okay to say "today I can't do it" or "today my goal is just one foot in front of the other". Take care folks." --Don, Nasopharyngeal Cancer Survivor"
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"By a final vote of 51-48, the Senate approved a budget resolution that sets the stage for broad swaths of the Affordable Care Act to be repealed through a process known as budget reconciliation. The resolution now goes to the House, where leaders are hoping to approve it by the end of the week."
NPR reports in on what the ACA repeal of last night meant for many members of our community. What are your thoughts?" Read more here.

Recent Discussions

Is anyone else feeling the survivor's guilt?

Does anyone else have trouble connecting to other people?

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Happy new year! Below is some of the latest news on IHadCancer- You can view the content by clicking directly on the text.

The results of our first-ever Blog Awards are in! Click here to read them and thank you for everyone who submitted and shared their story.

Most Recent Blog Posts

An Open Letter To Not-So-"Dear" Cancer

I Can Remember Every Detail Of My Cancer Diagnosis

Dancing Helped Me Rediscover Myself After Breast Cancer

Recent Dear Cancer Messages

Dear Cancer, I beat you and will help anyone who needs help to do the same!

Dear Cancer, please don't ever come back. You scared me to the core. I get it, I'm mortal. But I hate you so much. Please don't ever ever come back.

Recent Facebook Posts

"I know the feeling of being there for your child no matter how hard it is. She was there for me through it all she gave me my neupagin shots n kissed my head every time and called me pretty lady" -- Terri, Non-Hodgkin's Stage III Survivor.
Now is a good time to take stock of the people you have around you to be grateful for."
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"May this poem inspire you as you start thinking about your goals for 2017" ‪‬ Read more here.

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Calling all in the cancer blogosphere- submit your favorite cancer-related blog (or your own) for our first-ever Blog Awards. Send a link to blog@ihadcancer.com with subject line "Blog Awards" by 10/26.

Note: It doesn't matter how well-known or how many views the blog has - we are accepting nominations of all shapes and sizes!

Most Recent Blog Posts

The 3 Biggest Milestones I Can't Wait to Celebrate After Cancer

I Never Felt More Alive Than After I Almost Died

An Open Letter To Anyone Who Loves Someone With Cancer

I Won't Let Cancer Keep Me From Being a Mom

Recent Dear Cancer Messages

Dear Cancer even though you have taken so much from me and continue to do so you will never make me give up. I have beaten you and even though I still have to have test every six months and what you did to my self image and the extra care I have to take to keep you away. Remember I am more powerful than you!!!!! Through theses past few years I have battled you in different organs at different times I will keep battling and winning. There's a reason that I am still here. Some purpose I have no idea what but whatever it mat be you CAN'T destroy me completely!

Dear Cancer, You are an abusive person who just won't go away. Even though we have not been together for a couple years, you still make you sure that I never forget that we met!

Recent Facebook Posts

"Christine Joy "Chrissy" Amphlett was an iconic Australian singer, songwriter and actress who was the frontwoman of the Australian rock band Divinyls, with hits that included "The good die young." She left this earth three years ago, just 53 years old, from breast cancer and complications from multiple sclerosis.
Chrissy's dying wish was that her song "I touch myself" become an anthem for breast cancer awareness. This powerful cover shows how connected we all are through this disease and how we can pass her message on. IHC in Australia, this is especially for you "
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"On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we are reminded that everyone has something that they may be silently struggling with. The battle within us is very real and we can talk about it. #mentalillnessisreal" ‪‬ Read more here.

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We're capping off Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with a limited inventory of our inspirational kid's t-shirts available in our store! With every order, we’ll throw in a “You would be my hero” Post-it note as additional inspiration. Our #IHCfamily is all about making sure everyone’s story is heard- including those of kids. :)Click here for our store! We currently do not ship internationally.

Most Recent Blog Posts

The 3 Biggest Milestones I Can't Wait to Celebrate After Cancer

Does The Cancer Moonshot Really Cover Everything?

The 4 Best & 4 Worst Parts About Life After Cancer

Recent Dear Cancer Messages

Dear Cancer, Terry... (the tumour). Please allow me the presence of mind to listen to what the doctors tell me and take appropriate action before I find myself in pain again... And to ask the right questions, when the docs don't come up with the 100% truth.... their pain, not mine.

Dear Cancer, I am proud to say that to me you were just a candle and I hosed you down with a fire hose-no chance. And I wish I could hose you and put your fire out in every member here, in fact every person in the world that has to deal with you.

Recent Facebook Posts

"'Whenever we have needed to get down to the serious business of life, we have always preferred to retreat to our bed: our war room, cocoon, escape hatch and, at times, dining room. But in the weeks after I learned that the breast cancer I have been in treatment for over the past year had spread to my bones — breaking my spine and becoming incurable and most likely fatal — finding the perfect living-room couch has begun to feel like the most important thing I’ve ever done.'
Great read for #MetsMonday!"
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"'The C word is something you can invoke to kill the mood at a party. It’s a word that can choke out conversation and turn a recently diagnosed person into someone to pity or be avoided. “Cancer” has come to be synonymous with death and suffering. But there are more and more cancer peeps who think that this ‘unspoken rule’ is bull-crap, and should be broken. I think so too.'
Proudly sharing for #NationalComicBookDay!" ‪‬ Read more here.

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We hope everyone is enjoying these next few weeks as we head into the Fall! Below is some of the latest news on IHadCancer- You can view the content mentioned by clicking directly on the text.

Most Recent Blog Posts

It's 6 Letters and Starts With C

I Am So Much More Than A Statistic

I Was Afraid of Being Bald, But My Daughter Needs Me Not To Be

Recent Dear Cancer Messages

Dear cancer, It's time to let you go. Three years of being cancer free, I still let the fear of you get the best of me. Here I am again with fatigue, nausea, joint pain, and fear. If I connect the dots with fear, I imagine you have returned. So here I am...waiting once again for scans to be done so I can re-assure myself.

Dear Cancer, After 5 years I wish you would stop being the dark thought always in the back of my mind. Popping up to try to knock me down.

Recent Facebook Posts

"'Said goodbye to my oncologist this week. Five year triple negative breast cancer survivor.' - Britt #TNBC Survivor #LifeAfterDiagnosis"
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""It was only when having stem cell transfer that my hair fell.out from big dose of chemo before the transfer. What amuses me is that now, 102 days later, I am wearing the most obvious "badge" of cancer, the bald head but I am feeling physically better than I have in years. I still have a long road to go but stamina is returning and I'm learning to balance my life...well, trying at least." - Lisa, Multiple Myeloma Survivor #LifeAfterDiagnosis" ‪‬ Read more here.

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