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02.17.17
Michael Bischoff started having headaches at the end of August 2015, right when summer turned into autumn. As the weather cooled, the headaches grew more intense and were joined by spells of nausea. P...
02.16.17
In the fall of 2015, Michael Bischoff was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer. As a husband and father of two young children, he hopes for a cure, of course. But his main f...
02.16.17
Zach Sobiech was 18 when he died from complications of osteosarcoma in 2013. His CaringBridge website, written by Zach and his Mom, Laura, has received nearly 1 million visits. To say goodbye to his f...
02.16.17
Camille Scheel of St. Paul, MN, began writing on her CaringBridge website in 2007, after being diagnosed, at age 38, with Stage III lobular carcinoma — breast cancer. (She passed away on Aug. 26...
02.09.17
My 16-year-old daughter is a brain cancer survivor. She is 10 years out from active treatment, which included surgery, as well as radiation and chemo so brutal I wanted to die just watching her go thr...
12.05.16
With 9 years now passed since my baby daughter finished active treatment for stage IV neuroblastoma, I don’t think about cancer every day anymore. I am probably down to a few days a year. Maybe, eve...
08.17.16
As I was about to watch my five-year-old undergo chemotherapy, I had a vivid dream that calmed the fear of the unknown. In my dream, Gavin’s neurosurgeon stoically walked out of surgery, telling us ...
06.16.16
Bob Kaufman wasn’t used to a slow-paced life. Once a producer on the nationally televised CBS: This Morning, he’s now the chief communications officer for the state of Texas Department of Tran...
03.21.16
On Memorial Day weekend of 2013, Kevin and Tara Luther noticed something odd: the left side of their son Nolan’s face wasn’t as animated as it usually was. Their holiday weekend turned int...
03.15.16
It’s been a long two-and-a-half years since the moment my son Graham was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer. What we thought was a lazy eye turned into the diagnosis no one wants t...
