How a Single Mom's Openness About Cancer Inspired Her Family

After receiving “the gift of desperation,” Michelle shares how she found the will to live, the strength to parent, and a newfound dedication to caring for ...

Being there for single parents with cancer - CNN

CNN Heroes · Tell me about the woman who inspired your work. · I grew up with a girl named Michelle Singleton who was diagnosed with breast cancer ...

A Daughter's Story: How Cancer Impacted My Family

As the proud daughter of cancer survivor JoAnn Jones, I wrote this blog as a way to share my journey, helping others understand my mother's disease.

A survivor's advice for single parents facing cancer

Constance Charles, a single parent, was afraid to tell her daughter she had breast cancer ... She had no history of cancer in her family, so the ...

A cancer mom's personal journey of the last 10 months of her ...

These journal entries spanning across close to 10 months describing Isabella's parents' emotional decision to start MIBG therapy at Children's Hospital in ...

I'm a Single Mom by Choice; When I Got Cancer, I Worried About My ...

I wanted kids, and decided to have them on my own via an anonymous sperm donor. · I wasn't worried about being a single mother until I was ...

Series 3, Episode 5: Cancer as a single parent

One evening after watching a breast cancer awareness program on TV, Dee checked her breasts and found a lump. ... their children is just to be as upfront and open ...

What Mom's Five Year Fight With Cancer Taught Me About Life

After a hundred or so hospital visits and just as many “family meetings” over the same amount of time, you become sick of feeling a certain way, ...

Non-Profit Supports Single Moms With Metastatic Breast Cancer

One day when her husband was opening medical bills, they saw one that shocked them — a bill for $80,000 for chemotherapy treatment. Although ...

“You really need a whole community”: a qualitative study of mothers ...

Mothers explained that NAN offered indispensable family-centered support largely missing from the health care system, promoting improved ...

How to “Mom” During Cancer - Young Survival Coalition

Being a younger parent while fighting cancer brings another dimension to the battle. Having cancer is tough enough as it is.

Navigating Parent Duties With MBC - HealthCentral

One of the biggest concerns MBC moms have is how to talk to their children about their health and what lies ahead. “As soon as I knew my ...

What to Say (and What Not to Say) to a Family Facing Cancer

Two moms, Mindy Dykes and Laura Sobiech, both with sons affected by childhood cancer, offer up some words that lifted them up during their experiences and ...

A love story to my mom: Family's cancer journey marked by worry ...

My mother had cancer too. We lost her to it. From here on out things will be different. You won't notice they are different until you stop and ...

My mom's journey through breast cancer and what it has taught me

Three (very) young children to deal with and then a life-altering diagnosis. Things must have looked bleak. But the qualities that my mother has ...

Lung Cancer: A Daughter's Nightmare Come True - St. Louis Mom

My Mom fought SO hard. We were told that she had one year to live. She endured radiation on her brain. She lost her hair, and she began to lose ...

Mom's Memory Inspires New Parenting Clinic

But his mom's cancer returned when Hall was a senior in high school. “She sits me down and says 'it's come back,' and we both knew if it came ...

My mother has breast cancer. How love, support, and awareness ...

My mom has breast cancer. It's really hard to think about because I never thought it was possible. She had medical tests, scares from Internet ...

Dear single moms with cancer: you are not alone - For the Breast of Us

I knew when I found the lump on my left breast it was cancer. The moment I touched it, I just knew. I discussed finding it with some family ...

Wise tips from a Cancer Mom: A Conversation with Laura Lang-Ree

There was one family in particular that had started sharing ideas about how to survive through this thing because I think we think of survivorship as the day ...