“To keep going is resilience in the face of something terrible going on,” says Courtney, pictured here. Writing, joking, TikToking and connecting helped Courtney get through the toughest moments of an advanced-stage melanoma diagnosis.   “If I wasn’t going to laugh, I was going to cry, and there was a better way for me to […]

“I wish we would talk about it more because you wouldn’t feel so alone going through it,” shares Jawanna, pictured here.  Photographer: Casey Templeton Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in the U.S., and Black and African American people develop MM at much greater rates and at younger ages than people of other […]

Written by Sarah Vammen TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail This blog was originally published in November 2015 and was updated for relevancy. Caregivers to someone with cancer spend an average of 8 hours per day providing care to their loved one. The demands of caregiving depend on several different things — stage of disease, types of symptoms experienced, treatment side effects, and more. […]

Stock photo by Ulises Baga for Unsplash MyLifeLine provided Erma and her husband a way to share treatment updates with their personal support network, all in one place.   When Erma’s husband Shelby was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer, saying they were both stunned would be an understatement. Shelby was an active and healthy individual […]