Bob Riter's Cancer Columns
Bob Riter is the Executive Director of the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes and writes a regular column about living with cancer in the Ithaca Journal (reprinted here). Bob's involvement with cancer education and advocacy began with his own diagnosis of breast cancer in 1996 at the young age of 40.
Working in the Cancer World
The Good That Emerged
New Year A Time For Wishing
How Old Is Too Old To Treat Cancer?
The Human Side of Treatment
New Nurses and Cancer Patients
Second Opinions
Advice for Those Newly Diagnosed
Donating Blood and Organs
Young Adults with Cancer
It's OK to Ask Your Doctor!
Holiday Gifts When the Cancer is Advanced
Part of Bob Riter's Cancer Columns, Holiday Edition
If You've Had Cancer, You Know This Look
Being Single With Cancer Is Difficult
Partner in Denial
Thoughts & Prayer Tree
Telling The Kids
Survivor's Guilt
Nurses & Radiation Therapists
Doctor-Patient Interactions
Having Cancer Can Make Us Change Our Concept of Hope
Holiday Gifts
Part of Bob Riter's Cancer Columns, Holiday Edition