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How Creating a Personal Mantra Helped Me Beat Childhood Cancer

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If you are a college student, we invite you to apply to be an Editor-at-Large , or to simply contribute (please tag your pieces ThriveOnCampus). I was 13 years old when I experienced my first symptom of childhood cancer. I’ve been cancer-free since December 2018 and am more excited to live my life than ever.

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“In the zone”, With Carrie Charles and Parveen Panwar, Mr. Activated

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As a mother of a childhood cancer survivor, Carrie aligned her personal mission with her role on the Board of Directors of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory? At age 11, my son was diagnosed with cancer. My mother was a housekeeper.

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Marc Julien of RAAM 21: “Calculated risk has no emotion”

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As a cancer survivor, I experienced the physical and emotional destruction a diagnosis and the treatments deliver. It is unacceptable that kids are subjected to brutal side effects of cancer treatment drugs, which can cause long-term cognitive and cardiac issues. It is my mission now to help children who are impacted by the disease.

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Cancer Survivor Marc Julien of Marc Julien Homes and RAAM21 – Competing in the “Race Across America” to raise funds for childhood cancer research

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After beating stage four cancer in 2018, Marc launched a non-profit to help fund childhood cancer treatment research, RAAM 21, and assembled a team to compete with him in the Race Across America, all while overcoming great odds and proving cancer is a calling to achieve more in life.

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Dr. Lanetta Greer: “You can’t please everybody”

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My father, who had survived cancer, passed away. We decided to put our childhood home up for sale. He or she might just see this, especially if we tag them. Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path? On May 12, 2006, my life forever changed.

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Shari Botwin On The Five Things You Can Do To Become More Resilient During Turbulent Times

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I developed a variety of coping strategies to manage my emotions and work through a lost childhood and adolescence. I published op-eds on the impact of childhood abuse and I came forward on being an incest survivor. They were the first people who ever put into words what I felt for most of my childhood and adolescence.

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Liz Eddy of Lantern: “Be okay saying ‘no’”

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Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory? For most of my childhood, my dad was sick with terminal cancer until he died in 1999. My dad died of cancer when I was 9 years old. He battled an aggressive form of cancer, had a brief remission, and ultimately developed chemo-resistant cancer.