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What Is Scanxiety? Scanxiety is the fear, anxiety, and emotional distress many cancer patients experience before, during, and after imaging tests such as CT scans, PET scans, and MRIs, especially while waiting for results. For people living with stage 4 cancer, scanxiety often centers on whether the cancer has grown, spread, remained stable, or responded … Read more

6 Ways to Cope With Scanxiety Waiting for a CT scan, PET scan, MRI, or biopsy results can feel emotionally exhausting. If you’re experiencing scanxiety, you’re not alone. While it’s impossible to eliminate the uncertainty completely, there are practical strategies that can help reduce stress, improve your emotional well-being, and make the waiting period more … Read more

My Voice Came Back: A Stage 4 Cancer Miracle, Hope, and My Latest CT Scan Behind the CT Scan, A Week I Won’t Forget There are weeks that quietly change your life. This was one of them. In just a few days, I had a CT scan, met with a speech therapist who gave me … Read more

I have been blessed. For a long time, I wondered if I would ever be able to say those words about my voice again. Many of you know that one of the hardest parts of my cancer treatment wasn’t just the surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, or the uncertainty. It was losing my ability to communicate. In … Read more

There is a certain kind of anxiety that only cancer patients understand. It doesn’t happen during chemotherapy. It doesn’t happen during surgery. It doesn’t even happen during treatment. It happens while waiting. Tomorrow I have another CT scan. If you have never had cancer, a scan might seem like just another appointment. Show up. Get … Read more

After Keytruda treatment is paused due to immunotherapy-induced pneumonitis, Wayne shares the emotional reality of sleepless nights, uncertainty, and recovery. Despite the setback, recent scans remain stable, faith remains strong, and hope continues to guide his journey through stage 4 cancer. There is a particular kind of quiet that shows up at three in the … Read more

I have had so many CT scans over the past four years battling cancer that I have lost count. You would think it gets easier. It does not. The night before, you lie there in the dark and your mind starts going. You replay every cough, every ache, every weird feeling you brushed off. You … Read more

A chapter from Still Here: How Faith, Food, and Family Beat Stage Four Cancer Let me start with something that matters: I respect doctors. I owe part of my life to the oncologists, surgeons, nurses, and radiologists who helped carry me through some of the darkest valleys I have ever walked. They are good people … Read more

Friends and family, I want to start this update the way I should start every day. By saying thank you. Thank you to God. Thank you to every single one of you. And thank you for the milestones your support and prayers have allowed me to experience since my stage four diagnosis. With Easter right … Read more

The most important question in cancer care is also the most frustrating: how do you find it before symptoms appear? For most people, the answer has been to wait. Wait for a lump. Wait for pain. Wait for a doctor to notice something on a scan ordered for something else entirely. By then, many cancers … Read more