This Wednesday, I will be returning to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the St Jude Life Study. This amazing study is helping me by assessing and addressing late effects and future cancer survivors by understanding long term survivorship.

Now, I get this is an amazing huge study that I’m lucky – and happy – to be a part of. But this is the first time I’ve been back to St Jude’s since I was in my teens and I’m walking back through the front door where they uttered those words “you have cancer”. GULP! I’ll…

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I am a young adult cancer survivor. I was diagnosed when I was 15 years old and spent a little over a year receiving chemotherapy and radiation. What I’ve learned about this disease is that you can never totally prepare for the ways it will impact your life. One of my closest friends during treatment who was from Buffalo, NY, lost his battle with this disease, and I haven’t watched the Bills since without a tear. And I still can’t quite put a hat on my head because the flashes of being bald come flooding right back. As it…

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At the Lance Armstrong Foundation, providing access to helpful information and tools is one of the key ways we fulfill our mission to inspire and empower people battling cancer. Now the LAF is helping to make it easier than ever for those affected by cancer to navigate their cancer experience.

From now until December 15, 2008, you can receive free shipping on 20 to 200 LIVESTRONG Survivorship Notebooks (within the US) by visiting www.livestrong.org/notebook/bulk. The notebook itself is always available for free, so right now there is no cost for ordering Notebooks.

The easy-to-carry, spiral-bound LIVESTRONG…

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LIVESTRONG at School Contest

Thank you to everyone who participated in the LIVESTRONG at School contest! The contest winners have been officially announced at www.livestrong.org/school and are listed below. We have been absolutely astounded over the past couple of months as entries for the LIVESTRONG at School contest have been turned in to the LAF. We received almost 200 entries from classes who submitted books, videos, drawings and songs. Everyone who participated demonstrated hard work and an understanding of what LIVESTRONG means to them while having fun at the same time.

We truly appreciate the…

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