Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. When Katie Thurston was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer earlier this year, at age 34, ...

It's hard to know what to say when you hear the devastating news that a loved one has cancer. Even if the person sharing their diagnosis isn't that close to you, navigating the conversation can feel ...

What you don’t say can matter just as much as what you do Medically reviewed by Daniel B. Block, MD When Thomas Goode, a 52-year-old North Carolina resident, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma 16 ...

When Katie Thurston was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer earlier this year, at age 34, people kept telling her they knew someone with the same diagnosis. Solidarity, you might think. A ...

I hear that a lot. I didn’t quite know how to type it here. Some folks say it like this: You look good. As if they’re surprised — shocked that I still look like the guy they saw before I shared with y ...

There are few words as frightening as cancer. The term has been around since 400BC, when Hippocrates, the Ancient Greek father of medicine, named a mass ‘karkinos’, or ‘crab’. When his work was ...