SURVIVORSHIP, Feb / Mar 2026 (Vol 11, No. 1)
This beautiful Survivorship issue leans toward hope and lessons learned in survivorship while honoring the fear, uncertainty, and courage that often fuel or complicate the process of living beyond diagnosis.
For many, one of the hardest aspects of a cancer experience is discovering how far-reaching the aftermath is. It’s challenging learning to live alongside the physical and emotional effects of diagnosis and treatment that linger. This is survivorship, and it begins the next minute after hearing the words “you have cancer.”
Within this issue, you will find 22 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, and Lobular
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Marissa Thomas, Co-Founder & CEO of For the Breast of Us
Cover Stars Marissa Thomas & the For the Breast of Us Leadership Team
Living With Stage IV Cancer: Everyone’s Worst Nightmare by Nicole Briant | The Routine of After by Asmita Chattopadhyay | Not a Survivor by Nicole Close | The First Half Decade by Brianna DeWitt | These Happy Golden Years by Kelley Franks | The Point of Life is to Live It by Bridget Godwin | The Lighthouse by Cheri Henderson | Survivor-ing the Storm by Teckla King-O’Connor | Ask Me by Shalini Krishnan | BSE #179 by Katherine Kubarski | Survivorship: No Bell, No Bow, Just Me by Keneene Lewis | A Decade of Battles and Rebirths by Desireé Maldonado | The Stranger in the Mirror by Lisa Mannina-Sulzer | A Whisper to My Former Self by Kamilah “Meek” Marsh | Note to Self from Survivorship by Meghan McCallum | One Breath After the Other by Shari Schindel, Psy.D | Postcard to the Me at Diagnosis by Magen Schoonover | What Do You Say? by Cara Nash Snyder | Storm Surge by Nikki Taylor, MD | Guest Editor’s Note by Marissa Thomas | I Can Still Feel It by Cassandra Umbriaco | The Wound by Gina Velasco
SURVIVORSHIP, Feb / Mar 2026 (Vol 11, No. 1)
This beautiful Survivorship issue leans toward hope and lessons learned in survivorship while honoring the fear, uncertainty, and courage that often fuel or complicate the process of living beyond diagnosis.
For many, one of the hardest aspects of a cancer experience is discovering how far-reaching the aftermath is. It’s challenging learning to live alongside the physical and emotional effects of diagnosis and treatment that linger. This is survivorship, and it begins the next minute after hearing the words “you have cancer.”
Within this issue, you will find 22 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, and Lobular
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Marissa Thomas, Co-Founder & CEO of For the Breast of Us
Cover Stars Marissa Thomas & the For the Breast of Us Leadership Team
Living With Stage IV Cancer: Everyone’s Worst Nightmare by Nicole Briant | The Routine of After by Asmita Chattopadhyay | Not a Survivor by Nicole Close | The First Half Decade by Brianna DeWitt | These Happy Golden Years by Kelley Franks | The Point of Life is to Live It by Bridget Godwin | The Lighthouse by Cheri Henderson | Survivor-ing the Storm by Teckla King-O’Connor | Ask Me by Shalini Krishnan | BSE #179 by Katherine Kubarski | Survivorship: No Bell, No Bow, Just Me by Keneene Lewis | A Decade of Battles and Rebirths by Desireé Maldonado | The Stranger in the Mirror by Lisa Mannina-Sulzer | A Whisper to My Former Self by Kamilah “Meek” Marsh | Note to Self from Survivorship by Meghan McCallum | One Breath After the Other by Shari Schindel, Psy.D | Postcard to the Me at Diagnosis by Magen Schoonover | What Do You Say? by Cara Nash Snyder | Storm Surge by Nikki Taylor, MD | Guest Editor’s Note by Marissa Thomas | I Can Still Feel It by Cassandra Umbriaco | The Wound by Gina Velasco
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