6 On the Cover: Pro Golfer Jim Colbert on Surviving Prostate Cancer
Once considered one of the fittest players on the Senior Tour, prostate cancer was not something Jim Colbert had ever really thought about.

8 Changing Your Stars
A cervical cancer survivor’s story of overcoming life’s challenges

12 Coming to Terms with the Reality of Metastatic Breast Cancer

15 Maximizing Cancer Pain Management
Untreated pain can negatively affect your physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being.

16 Living with Diabetes and Cancer
Coping with one of these diseases is a challenge, but when they are both present, the real fight for survival begins.

18 Cancer – 25 Years Later
Twenty-five years ago, it was considered controversial for people to actively participate in their medical treatment. Much has changed since then.

20 A Letter from the Land of Cancer
When Walter Wangerin Jr. was diagnosed with lung cancer, he began writing letters … about confronting mortality, about the medical procedures he endured, and about hope.

22 Loving Our Bald Selves

24 O Is for Organize Your Life
An organized life is more than just fancy binders with color-coded tabs.

32 Help for Relationships Challenged by Cancer

33 Oncology Social Work 101

34 Keeping Your Own Medical Records
What you need, what you don’t, and how to organize it all

35 Top Cancer Research Advances of 2009

39 Taking Care of You
Tips and support for the cancer caregiver

42 Desperate Housewives’ Ricardo Chavira CARES about Breast Cancer Caregivers
He plays tough-guy Carlos Solis on TV, but off-camera, the actor has a softer side.

Focus on Prostate Cancer

25 Understanding Your Treatment Options

27 Caring for Your Bones When You Have Prostate Cancer

28 Erectile Dysfunction and Prostate Cancer
Know your options for treating ED so you can find the one that works for you.

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Briefs 19, 36
Support 36
Poems 38
Cancer Survivors Day 40