It was Memorial Day weekend in New York City — the dawn of a jubilant city summer buzzing with Knicks and World Cup energy — and I sat in a windowless East Village hospital room, right eye pried wide. As an ophthalmologist steered a small blade toward my cornea to “collect a sample” (translation: scrape … Read more
At 31, Molly Hones was preparing to die. She’d had a massive tumor removed from her liver the year prior, but was now learning the cancer had spread to her bones and into her blood. Hones had a rare cancer called fibrolamellar carcinoma that was now stage 4. After being advised that most chemotherapies wouldn’t … Read more
Rory Kennedy, 36, has no family history of cancer. He’s not overweight, and he has always maintained a healthy lifestyle — clean diet, regular exercise, no smoking or drinking. So when he was diagnosed with stage 3C colon cancer last September, it was a shock, to say the least. “I don’t have a single checkmark … Read more