9.2.10 Melissa Jones of Alexslemonade.org

Imagine if you were a child and all you had ever known was cancer. That was Alex Scott, who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma before her first birthday in 1996. Alex battled cancer hard, and day after her fourth birthday, She told her mom, that when she got out of the hospital she wanted to have a lemonade stand. She said she wanted to give the money to doctors who had helped her. Amazingly she had raised 2,000 for "her hospital. Alex held lemonade stands every year until her death in 2004 at the age of 8, but she knew that with her help many people had started their own lemonade stands and raised over $1 million dollars for Alex's Lemonade Stand.

9.2.10 Melissa Jones of Alexslemonade.org

8.27.10 Idelle Davidson of YourBrainafterchemo.com

Being faced with a cancer diagnosis is hard, so is the treatment. Every cancer survivor has side effects from chemo,but what if they continue long after treatment is over? Idelle Davidson is a breast cancer survivor and author. She discusses chemobrain, some of its symptoms, what you can do to help manage it and how it affected her in her book http://www.yourbrainafterchemo.com

8.27.10 Idelle Davidson of YourBrainafterchemocom

8.20.10 Eric Galvez of Masskickers.org

Imagine following your dream of becoming a physical therapist only to need one yourself. Thats what happened to Eric Galvez, he was diagnoses with a meningioma, a brain tumor. Fortunately for Eric it was benign, but he had to give up his dream of being a physical therapist and start the road to recovery. During this time he wrote a book called "Reversal, when a therapist becomes a patient" and wanted to give back to help others so he started an organization to help other brain tumor and brain cancer patients called http://www.masskickers.org

8.20.10 Eric Galvez of Masskickers.org

8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer.org

When Kathy Betz first started bike riding for charity she had no idea that soon after her mother would be diagnosed with breast cancer. Wanting to help her mom and the local women in the community she founded http://www.bike4breastcancer.org.

8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer

Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org

Deloris and Mark Bailey - When Deloris and Mark Bailey's son Brandon was diagnosed with cancer when he was 4 years old they wanted to give him something that would make him feel at ease when he was at the hospital. They gave him a chemo bear and told him that everything he goes through the bear will go through too. That was 6 years ago and Brandon is in remission. Deloris and Mark want to give all children diagnosed with cancer a chemo bear and that is why they started www.friendslikeus.org

Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org

07.30.10 Joe Bouffard i2y.com

Imagine if you were a young adult survivor and you go to your local hospital to find resources to help you cope with cancer and survivorship and all you find is resources for the older cancer patient. What would you do. You would look on the internet for support. That is exactly what Jack Bouffard did. Not only did he find information about http://www.i2y.com/, but now he is a part time employee, helping other cancer patients navigate through treatment and survivorship. Mel Majoros talks to Jack about his experience in this edition of "The Cancer Warrior" from Empower Radio


http://www.empowerradio.net/podcasts/CancerSurvivor_JackBouffardofi2y.com_073010.mp3

07.20.10 Recording Artist Sarah Mattea

When recording artist Sarah Mattea's friend Nadia got ovarian cancer, she wanted to write a song for her. Unfortunately instead of singing "I am here to stay (Nadia's Song)" at Nadia's benefit party, she sang it at her memorial service. Find out more about Nadia www.nadsquad.com the amazing young woman who inspired this song and more about recording artist and singer Sarah Mattea, (CLICK FOR FACEBOOK PAGE) who is donating a portion of the proceeds of the song to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund www.ocrf.org .

07.20.10 Recording Artist Sarah Mattea