For sufferers and survivors of most cancers, artistic expression generally is a useful method to launch pent-up feelings, and to hook up with others who could also be going via comparable conditions — serving to them know that they aren’t alone.
For CURE®’s first-ever Open Mic Showcase, we requested our viewers of sufferers, survivors and caregivers of these with most cancers to share brief movies of themselves performing an authentic act that pertains to their most cancers, be it music, studying one thing they wrote, explaining art work, stand-up comedy or extra.
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In our first of three installments of the Open Mic Showcase, you’ll hear from 5 performers and most cancers survivors.
(0:59) Our first efficiency is from Frank J. Peter, a person with Lynch syndrome — which is a genetic situation that makes people extra vulnerable to sure cancers — and survivor of a number of most cancers varieties. Just a few years again, Frank wrote a tune on the piano for his family members to recollect him by. He initially known as it “I Was Right here,” however now, years later, he’s dusting it off and calling it “I’m Nonetheless Right here.”
(3:54) Within the second efficiency, writer and breast most cancers survivor Diane M. Simard learn an excerpt from her ebook, “The Unlikely Reward of Breast Most cancers,” the place she chronicles her experiences with the illness after being identified in February 2015 on the age of fifty.
(6:04) Subsequent, male breast most cancers survivor and CURE® Contributor Khevin Barnes shared a brief clip from his video collection, “Survive and Thrive Stay,” which focuses on his ideas about most cancers. Within the video, he explains how most cancers forces him to “cancel all unfavorable conditioned emotional responses.”
(7:54) After Barnes’ video is a studying from Dr. Wendy S. Harpham, a doctor, writer, advocate and 32-year survivor of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood most cancers that varieties within the lymphatic system. Harpham mentioned how she has the reward of hope, after which recited a poem of hers.
(11:14) The ultimate efficiency on this installment is from knowledgeable storyteller and stage 4 oral most cancers survivor, Eva Grayzel. By her dynamic presentation, she tells a narrative that she pertains to the significance of sharing one’s most cancers expertise with others.
That is the primary of three installments of CURE®’s Open Mic Showcase.
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