Compliments can be just as dehumanising as insults if they are used to skate over the reality of the situation. #cansky 1/5

Happy to say that I will be on a panel for this event coming up this weekend on Saturday! Thrilled to be talking about all of the various issues that young adults with cancer face in today’s world! There are many you might not think about! #Cansky

You gotta be kidding me #bcsm #oncosky

“'I don’t care if it’s toenail #cancer,' said Kirby Lewis, Dx'd w/#breastcancer ~12 yrs ago & now Stage 4. 'If exposure occurs, they shld take care of those ppl.' Lewis said the 🍊 admin’s decision risks further stigmatizing men w/#BC. 'There’s this machinismo aspect, [men] ..." 1/2 #CanSky #bcsm

🎉 New Episode Out Now! 🎉 Don’t miss out—tune in now and join the conversation! 👉 Listen here: www.livefromstage4.org or your favorite podcast streaming platform. #cansky #oncsky #oncosky

I’ll be sharing my cancer-related thrombosis story at this webinar. If you are a cancer patient, or are caring for one, please register for free. Info 👇

I am happy to welcome 2️⃣ guests to discuss the role of podcasts to improve information sharing. They are both podcast hosts, making this @ascocancer.bsky.social 's 1st podcast about podcasts.   🎙️Drs Patel The Fellow on Call & @drteplinsky.bsky.social Interlude Podcast

Today would have been Gwen’s birthday. She was stolen from us by MBC.

Start your Saturday with @metavivor.bsky.social at the @americancancersoc.bsky.social walk at Chicago’s Soldier Field! Come on down, rain or shine #cansky

Interested in sharing about your experience of living with MBC? The Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance has launched a new initiative designed to educate the public on the experience of living with MBC and I would like to invite anyone who is living with MBC or their person is living with MBC 1/3

Just Dx'd w/#metastatic #breastcancer & looking 4 support, #clinicaltrials, new treatments? Check out this FREE pt event Sat, Nov 1, 8-3:15 PDT at @fredhutch.org. Topics include: financial health, sexual health, new #MBC treatmnts, nutrition, exercise, CTs & more! #CanSky @thankscancer.bsky.social

MBC BCAM awareness #2 Good morning! Picking up where I left off last week with Breast Cancer Awareness month educational tiles from Metavivor: In 2017, I was 38 and had never had a mammogram because I did not yet meet the criteria for screening. I received my first mammogram in the process of my…

Great 2C #lobular #breastcancer coverd by @cbsnews.com but it wld have been helpful 2 mention: *Lobular #BC dsn't usually make lumps *So it's often not felt or seen on mamms *Esp in dense breast tissue *It's abt changes, not lumps! *More info @lobularbca.bsky.social #CanSky #MedSky #CancerBS #bcsm

Just diagnosed w/#lobular #breastcancer & wondering what the heck that is? Join me & @fredhutch.org #ILC experts THIS Wed OCT 15 3-5pm in person or via Zoom 4 a breakdown of new research, #clinicaltrials & more. Register 👇👇 @thankscancer.bsky.social #CanSky #bcsm www.fredhutch.org/en/events/sp...

Catching up on some MBC BCAM awareness! Each October, Metavivor shares tiles of educational information and 2025 is no different. I'll be sharing information throughout the month as I have the time/bandwidth and today I'm catching up on the first week of tiles: Approximately 117 people in the…

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... "Morality is not a buffet"....pope's words remind people that #pro-life means taking care of others, no killing, etc.

This and the funding cuts for cancer research could literally kill me. I can't even describe what that feels like. 😟 #Cancer #Stage4 #Melanoma #Metastatic #CancerResearch #CanSky #DermSky

Hey my #Cansky folks. I’m happy to announce Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center is hosting a young adults cancers symposium in November! Come join me. It’s FREE for patients. Would appreciate anyone spreading the word 🫶🏻 #Oncsky #Medsky

I’m excited and honored to say I will be joining the Judy Nicholson Kidney Cancer Foundation Board of Directors in 2026. I could never imagine when I was first diagnosed that I would dive headfirst into cancer advocacy. But here we are.

It’s October Again … 2025 While we don't see the fall seasons so much here in Florida from the trees, the rising incidences of pink smothered whatever always reminds me that October has arrived. Similar to other holidays, retailers get a start earlier and earlier in the year to capitalize on a…

Navigating the Gray Areas of Cancer Treatment Just popping in with a quick update as I've been remiss lately in keeping everyone updated. When so much is happening and changing in a short period of time, it's easy to forget that everyone else isn't doing this strange one foot in medical offices…

🎙️ Exciting news! Our new podcast, “Live from Stage 4,” is here. Join us as we dive deep into the real stories. 👉 Visit livefromstage4.org and follow us for updates! #cansky #oncosky #oncsky #mbc

Thank you @nytimes.com for featuring this upsetting news about the loss of #childhoodcancer funding for #braintumors. It was my pleasure to speak with #NinaAgrawal for this piece. But I wish circumstances were different and we didn't need this article at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Let's get politics the f*ck out of #publichealth. #IDSky #CanSky

New FDA-approved blood test "Shield" offers a less invasive #colorectal cancer screening, but while Shield may detect later-stage cancers, it misses over one-third of stage 1 cancers and most precancerous polyps. Learn more about what MSK experts have to say about Shield. ⬇️ #cansky

Courage doesn’t mean fear is gone—it means you carry it with you and act anyway. Every bold step you admire was taken by someone who felt scared but chose to move forward. Fear is human. Courage is action in spite of it. #YouBeatCancerNowWhat #OncSky #CanSky #cancerbs

#Cansky here’s my video where I spoke at the World GU Conference. I had to trim it a bit, but I hope it provided doctors and researchers there with a clear vision of their “why”. #Oncsky #Medsky

Once again I’m asking someone at Epic/MyChart to come up with a way for providers to opt out of sending the generic “you have a new message in mychart” that you need to go check in case it’s important for every time they change the specific chair you are assigned for systemic treatment #cansky

Calling cancer patients “brave” is dehumanising. I think this is because it puts distance between the patient and the other person. It’s not a compliment with any real meaning or recognition behind it. “You’re so brave. I couldn’t do what you’re doing.” But what’s the alternative? #cansky 1/3

"Society treats illness as a series of discrete medical events while ignorng the psychological aftermath tht often follows. Whether someone is living w/ #cancer, #MS, ulcerative colitis, #longCovid or anothr autoimmune or chronic illness, the emotional reverberations — marked ..." 1/2 #CanSky #IDSky

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... #Payasyougo rule could have big impact on $$$ available for Medicare in 2026 thanks to the #BigUglyBill

Your Cheat Sheet for Medical Billing and Insurance Challenges For the past few months, I have been in at least weekly and sometimes daily contact with either my insurance company, various medical providers, Medicare or all of the above. While I’ve dealt with what I often call “paperwork hell”…

The Pencil’s Tale for the First Day of School, 2025

Medical Updates, August 2025 As we prepare for a last getaway for the summer of 2025 and prepare to go back to school for the 2025/2026 school year (will have a 5th and 7th grader this year!), I realized that I passed eight (8) years of living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) in June…

🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not fucking around with this fiery speech on the Senate floor.💥🔥💥We need this from every Democrat if we are going to push back on fascism and save our fragile Democracy!! More of this please!! Bravo Senator Booker!!

Did you know that whether you have access to state disability insurance, depends on where you live? Use our charts of state laws to find out what you have access to: https://loom.ly/ZOCwLJU #cancerrights #canceradvocacy #disabilityinsurance #disability #cansky

Great article here about misinformation. We see it so much in the #Cancer communities. How to recognize and combat it 🥊. #Cansky #Oncsky

...life isn't a clockwork; it's a dynamic system, and unexpected things emerge from the interactions between all those little parts. To truly understand life, you can't just break it down. You have to be able to put it together again. - Claire L. Evans #cansky feeling this quote this morning

As a cancer patient surviving cancer means ignoring all misinformation against science, this is crucial to survivorship. Having Smith pedal anti science is a death sentence to children and adults in Alberta. #cansky#abpoli

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy

"The NIH awarded $36.94B in extramural research funding 2 researchers in all 50 states in 2024. This funding directly & indirectly supported ~408K jobs & produced $94.58B in new economic activity nationwide. That's $2.56 of economic activity 4 every $1 of funding. Biomedical ..." 1/2 #CanSky #IDSky

This is why we fund #publichealth #clinical #basicscience #research #Research funding has unexpected benefits. A lizard study led to Ozempic www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/n... via @statnews.com #MedSky #CanSky #IDSky

Human connection helped me to heal. And I don’t think we can fix the NHS without keeping this in mind. 7/7

✨A little Sunday Reminder from Project Life! #mbc #stage4needsmore #bcsm #busylivingwithmets #bccww #oncsky #oncosky #cansky

"90+ staffers at NIH signed their names 2 a letter of dissent in a rare sign of open resistance by career govt employees. The letter warns that 🍊administration policies such as terminating peer-reviewed grants, interrupting global collaborations ..." 1/3 #CanSky #MedSky #IDSky

"In a number of cases, trials that were mostly completed were rendered useless without the money to finish and analyze the work, the letter says. 'Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million,' it says, 'it wastes $4 million.'” TRUTH! #CanSky #IDSky #MedSky

Great time to try the five calls app and ask your senators to vote down this bill that diverts critical funding for science and Medicaid. I called my senators and left messages. It really matters how many calls a minute. The numbers and script are in the app. #cansky #altnih #sciencesky

⚖️Abigail's Legal Clinic is coming up again, on Tuesday, May 13 at 9:30AM PT / 12:30PM ET 🎉 Get help and answers to any of your legal questions when dealing with an MBC diagnosis. RSVP through the link in our bio today! #mbc #stage4needsmore #bcsm #busylivingwithmets #bccww #oncsky #oncosky #cansky