#Voices

Dena Battle, a kidney cancer patient advocate, used to worry incessantly about cancer. Then, her husband was diagnosed.

Mark Hoffman, 57, who has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, learned how to ask a question that may have saved his life.

Doreen Zetterlund, 59, lives in Southern California. She has chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Deltra Kroemer, 35, lives in Waterbury, Connecticut, with her five children. She has Stage IV breast cancer.

Retired schoolteacher Michael Kovarik, 64, lives with his partner on their farm in Greenwich, New York. He has metastatic breast cancer.

Cancer Health blogger Adam Hayden, 38, a philosopher and palliative care advocate, lives in Indianapolis with his wife and three sons.

Glenn Sabin, diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia 29 years ago, lives in Maryland with his wife, Linda, and sons, Miles and Jared.

Jill Cadman is a former patient advocate and educator living with HIV and Stage IV colon cancer.

Cancer Health blogger and breast cancer survivor Megan-Claire Chase lives in Atlanta.

Anne Boyer, a poet and essayist, writes about her experience with triple-negative breast cancer in “The Undying.”

Jill Cadman is a former patient advocate and educator living with HIV and Stage IV colon cancer.

Amy Berman, RN, who has Stage IV breast cancer, works to improve care for older adults.

Yolanda Brunson-Sarrabo, CPT, NASM, is the author of “Another Face of Multiple Myeloma.”

When therapist Clare Reed, of Dublin, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she used her therapeutic skills to change her own life.

Robert Ginyard, 57, lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.

Allison Ruddick is the creator of the Keeping Cancer Classy blog.