When Life Gives You Cancer, Eat Dessert First

Kat is far from your typical 16-year-old girl. She is a “cancer sib” grappling with her 12-year-old brother’s third recurrence of cancer. Kat is the protagonist in Dessert First, a realistic fiction debut novel by Dean Gloster. Dessert First is a must read for young...

Don’t Act Strong — Be Strong

“What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger.”  You’d think being a nearly 30-year cancer survivor, that I’d love this adage.  But I don’t. Why not?  Because it doesn’t offer any advice about how I get from here—to there.  It doesn’t offer me any wisdom as to...

I Wasn’t Going to Let Cancer Change Me

David is 19 years old and like many teens, enjoys playing basketball and video games, and loves hanging out with his Chihuahua, Frankie. But David’s path has not always been carefree and easy. At 17, David hadn’t been feeling hungry for a while. When he went in for a...