A newsletter exploring life when cancer becomes a chronic condition rather than a terminal or curable one. Issues cover personal updates, practical challenges such as hand function problems, and reflections on living with ongoing illness.
Website: https://stage-five.ghost.io/
Underlying Conditions covers medicine, public health and health policy, with issues that pair current news events with sourced explanation of the science and the policy behind them. Recent issues examined lung cancer screening in the context of the Pope's diagnosis and the investigation of reported lab-acquired plague cases in Irkutsk and Chicago.
A personal newsletter by a prostate cancer patient and former professional chef, mixing reflections on illness and medical absurdity with dry, darkly funny essays on cooking, Canada and daily life. Readers get a wry first-person voice, occasional recipes and observations on how people respond to a cancer diagnosis.
A leadership newsletter in which the author draws on her own breast cancer treatment to write about resilience, mental health and openness at work. Recent issues form a Breast Cancer Awareness Month series called Rewriting Leadership Norms.
A personal newsletter of essays and memoir-style writing about grief, loss, and memory, including a partner's final weeks with terminal cancer and remembrances tied to places and food. Readers get intimate, narrative first-person writing with sensory detail.
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