By Your Side

Cancer. That word gets thrown around so much these days, but no one seems to know just how much it impacts a person.

Beyond the medicine, and hospitals, and the bills that pile up day after day, there's the human cost. The toll it takes on families and friendships and the pure mental strain it takes on the afflicted.

This is about the human cost, about how you handle the knowledge that you have a disease that could ultimately kill you