Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 4th, is World Cancer Day 2015. Survivors, physicians, caregivers, and researchers around the world come together to raise awareness and encourage governments to take action in the fight against cancer. This global initiative is an important one, but what does World Cancer Day mean for you, one of the 630,000 young adult […]
July was Sarcoma Awareness Month, and at The SAMFund we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge our many friends and alumni who are sarcoma survivors, including our very own Executive Director, Sam. Most common in children and young adults, 40% of bone sarcomas and 20% of soft tissue sarcomas are diagnosed before age 35. More than 5% of our SAMFund […]
I feel just like I’m sinking and I claw for solid ground I’m pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low oh darkness I feel like letting go if all of the strength and all of the courage come and lift me from this place I know I can love […]
Laura S. is a 2012 grant recipient who is paying it forward through her organization, Fight with Moxy, which raises awareness for ovarian cancer. This is the story of a wig. A wig named Shanna. And she actually prefers to be referred to simply as “hair,” thank you very much. But let me start at […]
Heather Von St. James is a new mom and amazing woman who is truly surviving and moving forward. At 36, just three and a half months after giving birth to her daughter, Lily, Heather was diagnosed with mesothelioma. She reached out to us with this powerful message: “Since May is National Cancer Research Month, I […]
Recently, we were pleasantly surprised to find an iTunes application for AYA Survivorship and wanted to know more about how it came to be available. So, we tracked down one of the designers, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, chair of the Cancer Alliance of Texas and doctoral student at the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) School […]
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