New Year’s Wishes For Friend With Cancer
It seems that I always have friends newly diagnosed with cancer. I would love to have the power to grant them wishes to make their
Bob Riter is the retired Executive Director of the Cancer Resource Center. His articles about living with cancer appeared regularly in the Ithaca Journal and on OncoLink. He can be reached at bobriter@gmail.com.
A collection of Bob’s columns, When Your Life is Touched by Cancer: Practical Advice and Insights for Patients, Professionals, and Those Who Care, is available in bookstores nationwide and through online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
It seems that I always have friends newly diagnosed with cancer. I would love to have the power to grant them wishes to make their
I recently received a phone call that went like this: “My boss is struggling with cancer, but he clearly doesn’t want to talk about it
If I’m in a support group, I always shut down conversations that begins with, “My cancer is worse than your cancer.” Those conversations are always
When I began writing this newspaper column about cancer, I wondered how long it could last. After all, how many story ideas about cancer could
I’ve worked at the Cancer Resource Center for more than 14 years and have talked with thousands of people during that time who have been
A woman with cancer recently told me that she was planning a pity party. She explained that, “Cancer just sucks and I want to get
A young man with cancer recently told me that he felt bored. That’s not something I often hear from people who are dealing with cancer,
I recently asked a group of cancer survivors if anything good emerged from their disease. One woman gestured at the people around the room and
People with cancer often form mental images of the disease or its treatment. When I was first diagnosed, I heard people compare their cancers to
A man with cancer just told me that he felt joyous when he was on chemo. That was a little startling because I’ve never heard