by Aysan | Nov 6, 2020 | Healthy Living, News, Series, Stories for UBCCA
As Movember approaches, a memory came to my mind, one of a friend frantically calling me one day and trying to cope with an incident she experienced earlier that morning: “I had just woken up to go for a run, taking a route across Lions Gate Bridge. Halfway...
by Aysan | Oct 23, 2020 | Healthy Living, News, Stories for UBCCA
Illustration by Nicole Nedeff The effects of the coronavirus on patients’ lives in hospitals, their treatments and communication with their doctors. “During the height of the COVID-19 crisis in New York, most hospitals in NYC essentially became COVID hospitals”. The...
by Lexis Ly | Nov 28, 2016 | Stories for UBCCA
Rory, this year’s president of the UBCCA, shared some thoughts on how cancer has affected his life. “Journey is a hard word because it’s such a struggle against something so massive. Watching him push through it and then come back smiling and playing football and...
by Lexis Ly | Nov 20, 2016 | Healthy Living, Stories for UBCCA
Movember holds a special place in Jacquie’s heart because her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer four years ago in November. “The doctor told him that you could live with metastasized cancer for up to 10 years and he said “that’s not what I wanted but it’s...
