At 28 years old, I found a lump on my breast. It was a week after we celebrated my son’s 1st birthday. I wasn’t even thinking that it could be cancer, but still, I decided to have it checked out. My doctor did a biopsy, then called me into his …

Hello, my name is Charity Ghert, and I am 45-years-old. I have two children and two grandchildren. I have no other family members; my parents passed away when I was only 13-years-old. My mother died of breast cancer at 38. I, myself, was diagnosed with stage 3 invasive  breast cancer. …

Women who suffer with endometriosis largely suffer in silence. After all, we are women. We have to do it all, wear every hat, and tackle every situation with dignity and grace. Never whine, never complain, always be strong for our families. Having endometriosis destroys all hope of accomplishing this stereotype. …

This is Maia’s story, told by her mother, Lauren. Maia was an IVF baby, and I was pregnant with twins and lost one at 11 weeks and five days. Maia was perfect, but I was so sick through my whole pregnancy that she came into this world 9 weeks early. …

I think my MPN story started in 2015, during my deployment to Afghanistan. Half-way through I began feeling incredibly tired and unable to finish my workouts, which was really unusual for me. I tried to push myself through thinking it was likely depression because of my surroundings. When I finally …

I was originally diagnosed five years ago at the age of 37 with what was thought to be stage 1 breast cancer. In the month that passed from my MRI to my double mastectomy, it had exploded to stage 3 grade 3 with 11/21 lymph nodes and all 4 sentinel …