Suz Mondello: Managing Chronic Pain and Normalizing Life with Cancer

Suz Mondello, a friend of Commonweal and alumna of the Cancer Help Program, speaks with CancerChoices staff Nancy Hepp and Laura Pole about her four-year journey with cancer.

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Sue Cohen: Poetry and Painting on the Path Forward

The creative expression in this painting and poetry journey supported me in approaching the original trauma of my cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment, recuperation, and life afterwards.

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Lindsay McDonell: Cancer and the Loss of Anticipation

There are three big areas that we can base our lives on: the past, the present, and the anticipation of the future. I focus on the now. It’s the only thing I can do.

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Lindsay McDonell: When the Cancer Comes Roaring Back

I opened the email with my monthly blood lab results. My tumor markers doubled from 33 to 70 in a month. So much for stable.

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7 Lifestyle Practices: Being Active in Your Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

Did you know that being active in your wellness by building practices and habits can improve your outcomes with conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, surgery, and immunotherapy?

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Your Choices

We’re here to make it easy for you to do better with your conventional treatments with self care + complementary care that are supported by good science.

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Making Skillful Decisions

Here are some important rules of thumb for getting these powerful—yet also often difficult—cancer treatments right.

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Introducing the 7 Lifestyle Practices

These 7 Lifestyle Practices are all things you can do for yourself. They cost little or nothing. They are the heart of self care.

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Exploring What Matters Now

The answer to “what matters now” with cancer can be your best guide to how to live, what treatments to undertake, and what treatments to decline or discontinue.

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Kay: A Cancer Recurrence Story

Now that she’s completed her chemotherapy, she wants to explore healing practices and therapies that will help keep the cancer from recurring.

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