Month: October 2018

THRIVER (n,adj.) Someone who thrives. Someone who supports their family or friend throughout the process of having cancer, sickness or disease. When I first heard of the word ‘thriver’, I did not exactly know what exactly I was being called. In the beginning, my definition of this word began as that. Throughout the year, my…

BY Tracy Posner PUBLISHED September 10, 2018 According to The American Cancer Society, roughly 22,240 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed, and more than 14,000 women will die of the disease this year. Ovarian cancer occurs when cells develop errors in its DNA, and these mutations tell the cell to grow and multiply…