Welcome to Making Sense of Cancer

Making Sense of Cancer is a blog to help make sense of a world that suddenly feels overwhelming. A cancer diagnosis brings a flood of new words, tests, decisions, and information — often all at once — at a time when people are already emotionally and mentally overloaded. It’s confusing, it’s exhausting, and it can feel impossible to know what matters most.

This blog was created to be a calm, trustworthy place to land — a guide that helps turn complexity into clarity and fear into understanding. Drawing on two decades of work in cancer biology, research training at leading cancer institutions, and personal experience with cancer in family life, the goal is simple: to explain things clearly, reduce overwhelm, cut through noise and misinformation, and help people feel more confident about the choices in front of them.

Over time, the vision is to build a living resource shaped by the real questions patients and caregivers are asking — a place that grows and evolves as oncology changes, and as people’s needs change with it.

At its heart, this blog is about empowerment through understanding — helping people feel steadier, clearer, and more confident when everything feels uncertain.