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 can be hard to find the right words when someone you know and love tells you they’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer. This is especially true with this disease, given it is often, though not always ...

It’s natural to feel sad about someone you know and care about being diagnosed with cancer. But I tell everyone: You get one sad face. After that, nothing but positivity. Pretty soon, cancer is going ...

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 ...