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Byline: By, Hannah Roberts & PA Entertainment Reporter Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has said cancer has changed her forever, and added: 'I know my own self-worth now.' The [...]

Byline: Steven Petrow IÇÖm lucky, and I know it. In 1984, I was treated for testicular cancer with a then-revolutionary new cocktail of medications known as PVB (the platinum-based drug [...]

Byline: Steven Petrow I'm lucky, and I know it. In 1984, I was treated for testicular cancer with a then-revolutionary new cocktail of medications known as PVB (the platinum-based drug [...]

Byline: By, Miriam Stoppard I have just watched the Princess of Wales' announcement and, like most people, I was quite shocked. She looked pale, drawn and frankly unwell. So I [...]

Byline: Barry Danilowitz I have cancer and I'm bizarrely calm about it. I'm usually wound pretty tight and I don't like interruptions. Last year a simple running injury almost ended [...]

Byline: By, Linda Nolan You walk towards that consultant's door and tell yourself 'I'm OK'. Then you reach it and know you're really not. I took sister Anne with me [...]

Byline: Lucy Clark If you came to Sam Neill's memoir without knowing the first thing about it, chapter one would hold a terrible shock. It begins amusingly enough: a lovely [...]

Byline: Naama Carlin My aggressive breast cancer diagnosis at 29 weeks pregnant came as a shock. It had major implications: I needed chemotherapy right away, with a strong possibility that [...]

Emily Amuke beams in her living room in London, UK. Her hair is blonde, almost whitish and short, a new look after it fell off due to chemotherapy.'I'm growing it [...]

Byline: By, Olivia Williams & Neil Shaw A 33-year-old mum of two young girls is facing aggressive chemotherapy after what doctors thought was a stomach ulcer turned out to be [...]

Byline: Claire Armitstead Zandra Rhodes was doing a yoga session with a friend in the early weeks of the pandemic when she realised that something was wrong. 'It's a funny [...]

On 9 March, I was told my breast cancer had come back, and spread to my lungs. I remember sitting in that little room in the East Surrey Hospital with […]

Byline: By, Brogan-Leigh Hurst Overwhelmed BBC podcast presenter Deborah James has revealed she is now 'free' from incurable stage four bowel cancer after a four year battle. In an emotional [...]

Byline: KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Over the past eight years I underwent two stem-cell transplants, each preceded by intense chemotherapy. My oncologist believes I am probably cured. The chemotherapy damaged my [...]

Byline: Mariella Frostrup The dilemma In February my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was devastating news for her -- and for me and our son. After chemotherapy, physiotherapy, [...]

Byline: Steve Hewlett Monday 24 October My 11th dose of high-energy radiation, which, to be honest, I'm finding a bit more punishing than the seven cycles of chemotherapy I've just [...]

Byline: Ranjana Srivastava 'Make sure you put in some advice about how to tell the kids,' a colleague urged me. My first response was: 'I don't know if I can. [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Wurtzel My first chemotherapy session was excruciating. I got home and passed out and felt so awful and exhausted and nauseated and like it was the worst thing [...]

Byline: Kate Purdy We've just come home from looking at the Turner prize nominations at the Baltic centre, just round the corner from where we live in Gateshead: Hattie, our [...]

Byline: Jamil Nathoo, Special to CNN (CNN) -- Today is my chemo anniversary. A year ago today, I started chemotherapy. Is that something you celebrate? Is it something you even [...]

Byline: Shelley Silas In 2007, my sister Leah was diagnosed with bowel cancer. She's had major surgery twice, two courses of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, a temporary (now reversed) ileostomy and additional [...]