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Young Adult Cancer Canada, 18 Argyle Street, Suite 201, St. John's, NL, A1A 1V3
Email [email protected] | Phone 709.579.7325 | Fax 709.579.7326 | Toll-free 1.877.571.7325
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Michalea writes about how therapy helped her cope with her mental health after she thought she was done with cancer. “Cancer, unlike a fire, does not merely disappear once extinguished.”
Read more“I didn’t know I had had two surgeries, a round of dialysis, and organs removed. I didn’t know that I was bleeding profusely from a bowel resection that didn’t hold, and I didn’t know that five days had passed. I didn’t know I had cancer.”
Read more“I had never considered what going grey could mean until the opportunity to do so was so narrowly almost taken away from me.”
Read moreAfter coming to terms with her terminal breast cancer diagnosis, Jess found herself falling into a gap which prevented her from accessing financial aid she says she should have access to.
Read moreJoseph Neale recaps the latest Insight team meeting and tells us his thoughts on how to better the young adult cancer experience.
Read moreKatie Jeffries writes about five things she did to keep her spirits up throughout treatment.
Read moreNicole writes about being diagnosed with PTSD after cancer, and some of the things that have help her through it.
Read moreJay writes about how Man Up to Cancer helped build another part of the peer community he is looking for after a colon cancer diagnosis.
Read more“I was eight months postpartum when I was diagnosed with cancer. That sentence stops me in my tracks.”
Read more“I experienced a major shift in how I viewed my life, a life I shouldn’t have if it were based on statistics. A new gratitude, a new perspective, a new push.”
Read more“We just want to be treated the same way you treated us before we were diagnosed with cancer.”
Read more“As we finished the walk, I was grateful for my team and daughter. It wasn’t easy, but I think that it was something I needed to do as I work to define myself post-cancer.”
Read moreCancer is shit, but there can be moments that are humorous, moments that give us pleasure in the darkest of days, and moments we can do nothing more than shake our heads and laugh at. Read on to hear your YACCtivists share their funny stories!
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