Cherie Rineker

Not every cancer patient sees themselves as a warrior, fighting a battle against their cancer. They say they are merely trying to survive something awful that happened and don’t think...

I have lived with, fought, and often beaten back multiple myeloma for going on seven years now. Mine has presented itself as very stubborn and, with 15 lines of treatment...

I must start off by assuring the reader that when I say humor has healing powers, I do not suggest that humor can heal or cure a body from cancer...

Clinical trials are not as straight forward as people think. I currently don’t qualify for two reasons. First, my myeloma has become sneaky (oligo secretory) and hardly shows up in...

Some days this diagnosis feels like I am sitting on death row, waiting for execution day to arrive. Every time I start a new treatment, it is as if yet...