Stories, Wisdom & Real Talk
The best cancer blogs written by survivors, patients, and experts — honest, human, and actually helpful. No jargon, no fear-mongering.
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Editor's Picks
Most loved by our communityChris Beat Cancer
By Chris Wark
Integrative Health
One of the most visited cancer blogs on the internet. Chris shares his personal healing journey, interviews with cancer survivors who used integrative approaches, and practical guides on nutrition, juicing, supplements, and mindset. His tone is warm, honest, and non-preachy — he presents his story without telling you what to do.
Why patients love it: Real survivor interviews, practical action steps, no scaremongering. Chris has personally interviewed over 150 cancer survivors and the stories are genuinely inspiring.
Kris Carr — Crazy Sexy Cancer
By Kris Carr
Nutrition & Lifestyle
Kris Carr turned her incurable diagnosis into a life of joy, plants, and purpose. Her blog covers plant-based eating, juicing, emotional healing, wellness rituals, and thriving — not just surviving. It's colourful, warm, and deeply practical. She has over two decades of lived experience with a cancer diagnosis and shows that life with cancer can still be vibrant and full.
Why patients love it: If you feel like cancer has stolen your identity, Kris shows you how to reclaim it. She's funny, real, and makes healthy living feel exciting rather than miserable.
Nancy's Point
By Nancy Stordahl
Personal Story
Nancy's Point is one of the most respected breast cancer blogs for its unflinching honesty. Nancy doesn't sugarcoat the cancer experience — she writes about fear, grief, body image, the emotional rollercoaster of survivorship, and the complicated feelings that come with a diagnosis. Her posts are thoughtful, well-written, and deeply validating for anyone going through it.
Why patients love it: Nancy says what everyone else is thinking but afraid to say. Her blog is a relief for people who are tired of being told to 'stay positive' and just need someone to be honest.
Anticancer Living
By Dr. Lorenzo Cohen & Alison Jefferies
Nutrition & Lifestyle
Anticancer Living is based on the book of the same name and covers the six key lifestyle factors proven to reduce cancer risk and improve outcomes: sleep, stress, community, exercise, diet, and environment. Unlike many wellness blogs, everything here is grounded in clinical research from one of the world's top cancer institutions. Posts are science-backed but written in plain, accessible language.
Why patients love it: You get the best of both worlds — real science from an MD Anderson researcher, written in a way that actually makes sense. No hype, no fear-mongering, just evidence-based lifestyle guidance.
Cancer Research UK News
By Cancer Research UK
Research Made Simple
The best source for understanding new cancer research without needing a PhD. Cancer Research UK's news team translates clinical trial results, landmark studies, and research breakthroughs into plain English. Posts are balanced, accurate, and always put findings in context — explaining what a study actually means for patients right now versus 10 years from now.
Why patients love it: You'll never be misled by a 'cancer cure' headline again. Cancer Research UK teaches you how to read cancer news critically and understand what research really means in practice.
Chris Beat Cancer
InspiringBy Chris Wark
Integrative Health
One of the most visited cancer blogs on the internet. Chris shares his personal healing journey, interviews with cancer survivors who used integrative approaches, and practical guides on nutrition, juicing, supplements, and mindset. His tone is warm, honest, and non-preachy — he presents his story without telling you what to do.
❤️ Real survivor interviews, practical action steps, no scaremongering. Chris has personally interviewed over 150 cancer survivors and the stories are genuinely inspiring.
Kris Carr — Crazy Sexy Cancer
InspiringBy Kris Carr
Nutrition & Lifestyle
Kris Carr turned her incurable diagnosis into a life of joy, plants, and purpose. Her blog covers plant-based eating, juicing, emotional healing, wellness rituals, and thriving — not just surviving. It's colourful, warm, and deeply practical. She has over two decades of lived experience with a cancer diagnosis and shows that life with cancer can still be vibrant and full.
❤️ If you feel like cancer has stolen your identity, Kris shows you how to reclaim it. She's funny, real, and makes healthy living feel exciting rather than miserable.
Nancy's Point
EmotionalBy Nancy Stordahl
Personal Story
Nancy's Point is one of the most respected breast cancer blogs for its unflinching honesty. Nancy doesn't sugarcoat the cancer experience — she writes about fear, grief, body image, the emotional rollercoaster of survivorship, and the complicated feelings that come with a diagnosis. Her posts are thoughtful, well-written, and deeply validating for anyone going through it.
❤️ Nancy says what everyone else is thinking but afraid to say. Her blog is a relief for people who are tired of being told to 'stay positive' and just need someone to be honest.
Stupid Cancer
HumorousBy Stupid Cancer Community
Community & Support
Stupid Cancer is for the young adult cancer experience — navigating diagnosis in your 20s or 30s, fertility concerns, dating with cancer, career disruption, and feeling completely out of place in a waiting room full of people twice your age. Their blog is funny, relatable, irreverent, and deeply community-driven.
❤️ Finally, a cancer community that gets it if you're young. No pity, no euphemisms — just real talk from people who know exactly what it's like to get a cancer diagnosis before your life has properly started.
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
EducationalBy LBBC Editorial Team
Community & Support
LBBC's blog is one of the best-moderated, most trustworthy sources of breast cancer content written specifically for patients. Posts cover treatment options, side effect management, lifestyle, relationships, sexuality, work, and emotional health — all without being overwhelming or overly clinical. Everything is reviewed by medical experts and written in plain English.
❤️ Trustworthy information that doesn't talk down to you. Each post is practical, evidence-informed, and written by people who genuinely understand what patients need to know.
Cancer Compass
EmotionalBy CancerCompass Community
Community & Support
One of the longest-running cancer community blogs on the internet. Cancer Compass features patient stories, forum discussions, and practical posts across every cancer type. It's a place where patients and families share experiences, ask questions, and find others who truly understand. The content is diverse, warm, and covers everything from diagnosis to end-of-life conversations.
❤️ Sometimes you just need to know you're not alone. Cancer Compass has thousands of real patient voices across every cancer type, and reading their stories can be deeply comforting.
Anticancer Living
EducationalBy Dr. Lorenzo Cohen & Alison Jefferies
Nutrition & Lifestyle
Anticancer Living is based on the book of the same name and covers the six key lifestyle factors proven to reduce cancer risk and improve outcomes: sleep, stress, community, exercise, diet, and environment. Unlike many wellness blogs, everything here is grounded in clinical research from one of the world's top cancer institutions. Posts are science-backed but written in plain, accessible language.
❤️ You get the best of both worlds — real science from an MD Anderson researcher, written in a way that actually makes sense. No hype, no fear-mongering, just evidence-based lifestyle guidance.
The Anti-Cancer Mom
PracticalBy Kristi Funk's Patient Community
Nutrition & Lifestyle
Focused on plant-based nutrition, hormone health, and lifestyle medicine for cancer prevention and recovery. Posts cover anti-inflammatory recipes, the science of diet and cancer, gut health, soy myths, alcohol and cancer risk, and how to eat well during chemotherapy. All written in a warm, encouraging tone without being preachy.
❤️ Practical food guidance that actually tastes good. The blog helps you understand why what you eat matters without making you feel guilty about every bite.
The Cancer Couch
InspiringBy Rebecca Timlin-Scalera
Mindset & Wellness
Rebecca writes with warmth, humour, and psychological depth about living with metastatic cancer. Her blog covers the emotional landscape of cancer — processing fear, finding joy, managing relationships, and maintaining identity when cancer takes over your life. She also runs a thriving podcast and community for those living with MBC specifically.
❤️ Rebecca doesn't pretend metastatic cancer is okay. She helps you find real joy and purpose within a reality that is genuinely hard — and that is far more useful than toxic positivity.
My Cancer Chic
PracticalBy Carrie Kohan
Mindset & Wellness
My Cancer Chic is for anyone who doesn't want to look sick while dealing with cancer. Covering wigs and scalp care during chemo, how to dress when your body changes, makeup during treatment, skincare for radiation, and maintaining confidence through it all. It's joyful, practical, and unapologetically focused on the fact that how you look can affect how you feel.
❤️ Nobody talks about this enough. This blog validates the very real emotional impact of cancer on your appearance and gives you practical tools to feel like yourself again.
Cancer Research UK News
EducationalBy Cancer Research UK
Research Made Simple
The best source for understanding new cancer research without needing a PhD. Cancer Research UK's news team translates clinical trial results, landmark studies, and research breakthroughs into plain English. Posts are balanced, accurate, and always put findings in context — explaining what a study actually means for patients right now versus 10 years from now.
❤️ You'll never be misled by a 'cancer cure' headline again. Cancer Research UK teaches you how to read cancer news critically and understand what research really means in practice.
Cancer.net Blog
EducationalBy American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Research Made Simple
Cancer.net is ASCO's trusted patient education resource, and their blog covers everything from understanding a new diagnosis to navigating treatment decisions, managing side effects, and life after cancer. Every post is written or reviewed by board-certified oncologists. Posts are comprehensive but readable — and cover topics patients actually ask about.
❤️ This is what your oncologist would say if they had more time to explain things. Authoritative, clear, and genuinely useful for making informed treatment decisions.
Integrative Oncology Essentials
PracticalBy Dr. Erin Stokes & Community Contributors
Integrative Health
Integrative Oncology Essentials bridges the gap between natural therapies and conventional cancer care. Posts cover supplement safety during chemotherapy, herb-drug interactions, evidence on mistletoe, high-dose vitamin C, curcumin, and mushrooms — all written for patients but backed by research. A practical resource for anyone wanting to understand what integrative therapies are actually supported by evidence.
❤️ Finally, an integrative cancer blog that's honest about what works and what doesn't. It helps you have better conversations with your oncology team about the natural therapies you're considering.
Heal Blog by the Chopra Foundation
InspiringBy Deepak Chopra & Contributors
Mindset & Wellness
Heal covers the mind-body-spirit dimension of cancer recovery — meditation, consciousness, the role of stress in disease, and the healing power of intention and community. Posts explore topics like how trauma affects cancer, the science of meditation, spirituality in healing, and developing a 'healing presence'. Written for people who believe healing is more than just a physical process.
❤️ If conventional cancer care leaves you feeling like a body being treated rather than a whole person, this blog reminds you that your mind, spirit, and inner life are part of your healing.
Patient Power Cancer Blog
InspiringBy Andrew Schorr & Patient Power Team
Community & Support
Patient Power publishes video interviews, patient stories, expert Q&As, and accessible summaries of the latest research across blood cancers, breast cancer, lung cancer, and more. Their mission is to help patients become empowered advocates for their own care. The blog is warm, community-focused, and consistently updates on the latest treatment developments in plain language.
❤️ Watching Andrew interview world-leading oncologists — and asking the exact questions patients want answered — is genuinely empowering. You leave feeling more informed and less afraid.
How to get the most from cancer blogs
Cancer blogs are written by real people sharing real experiences — not medical advice. Use them to feel less alone, discover questions to ask your doctor, and find inspiration from others who have walked this path. Always discuss any health decisions with your oncology team.