Living With Cancer

Cancer stories can be empowering and hopeful to those who are living with cancer. When a cancer diagnosis has touched your life, turning to living with cancer stories can be a helpful strategy for focusing on a positive, healthful future.

Pediatric Cancer Foundation Sews a Quilt for Angels

By Guideposts.org2 min read

Survivor Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio is making sure victims of pediatric cancer are always remembered

Sally Jane Waite Cancer Survivor Inspiring Jewelry Line

A Cancer Survivor’s Jewelry Line Offers Inspiration

By Brooke Obie4 min read

Sally Jane Waite’s eponymous jewelry line features a single bumble bee to symbolize overcoming adversity and appreciating every moment.

Staying Hopeful Through Cancer

By Valerie Reiss5 min read

A cancer diagnosis is a frightening thing to happen to anyone, but there are actions you can take to remain hopeful and positive. Valerie Reiss offers five tips for what to do when you learn you have cancer.

Casting Crowns singer Mark Hall on his cancer diagnosis.

What Cancer Taught Casting Crowns’ Mark Hall

By Jessica Toomer4 min read

Casting Crowns front man Mark Hall opens up about his cancer diagnosis and what the experience taught him about his own faith.

Guideposts: A smiling family bearing Christmas gifts pays a home visit to a person with cancer.

7 Ways to Care for a Loved One with Cancer During the Holidays

By Rev. Percy McCray, Nat'l Dir. of Spiritual/Faith-based Programs2 min read

Here are some tips to guide you in helping to make the Christmas season bright for someone with cancer.

8 Tips for Bringing Food to a Loved One with Cancer

By Holly Lebowitz Rossi5 min read

Providing food for a loved one with cancer is one of the best ways to help out. Here are some tips to make sure you’re being as helpful as possible.

Guideposts: An outstretched hand holds a clump of soil from which a green plant sprouts

Faith Over Fear in the Battle Against Cancer

By Rev. LaWanda Long1 min read

A chaplain for Cancer Treatment Centers of America discusses the role that faith can play when a patient is striving for healing and reassurance.

Praying Through Your Fears

Reverend Pablo Diaz shares how he used the power of prayer to help fight fear while he and his family waited for his father’s cancer test results.

Tim Timmons on his battle with cancer and his new album

Singer Tim Timmons: ‘Cancer Is Not My Story’

By Jessica Toomer4 min read

Tim Timmons was given a terminal cancer diagnosis 14 years ago. Today, he’s making music — his latest album Awake Our Souls just dropped — and living a joyful life.

Here's a powerful story of a breast cancer survivor and her faith in God.

Happy Breast Cancer Survivor Day to Me

By Michelle Cox5 min read

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Survivor and Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker Suzanne Eller shares her powerful story of how coping with the disease pulled her closer to God.