 |
Photos by Jason Schmidt
|
- The Radioactive Dad
- Cancer isn’t only a disease of the body. It makes its way into every thought, every personal ritual, every relationship. One family’s strange trip on the cancer road.
- Living With Cancer
- Life on the other side of diagnosis.
- Jenny Saldaña, 36, Breast Cancer
- In January 2006, she had a mastectomy followed by two months of chemotherapy. She’s currently cancer-free.
- Larry Comroe, 43, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- He had just closed the sale of Andy Warhol’s former townhouse when he was diagnosed in 2002. Last July, he finished the Ironman Triathlon.
- Loy Smith, 61, Bone-Marrow Cancer
- When he was diagnosed last year, he was unemployed and without insurance.
- Charles Tanenbaum, 92, Stomach Cancer
- Last year, he was diagnosed and insisted on having aggressive surgery. He is currently cancer-free.
- Rose Tisnado, 57, Cancer of the Bile Ducts
- She's packing up her East Village apartment to move into a hospice, where she expects to live out her final months.
- Kate Davis, 4, Leukemia
- She was diagnosed sixteen months ago and can leave the house only for doctor’s appointments and weekend trips.
- Lindsey Brass, 27, Leukemia
- Brass was diagnosed a week before her final exams at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
- Margaret Cieprisz, 38, Ovarian Cancer
- She was newly wed when she was diagnosed. She now has a daughter who was carried to term by her sister.
- Jodi Sax, 41, Colon Cancer
- She was diagnosed as terminal in fall 2002. The initial diagnosis turned out to be wrong, and she is now cancer-free.
- Alan Menikoff, 59, Kidney Cancer
- Diagnosed in 1999, he has a total of thirteen surgeries on his kidney, leg, lungs, and brain.
- Josephina Prins, 81, Multiple Myeloma
- A survivor of Auschwitz, she was diagnosed two years ago.
- Dan Foster, 57, Rectal Cancer
- Foster was diagnosed a decade ago. In 1999, the cancer spread to his lungs, but he now has a clean bill of health.
- Joel Nowak, 56, Multiple Cancers
- Over the past decade, he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, prostate cancer (twice), and kidney cancer.
- Eric Fruhstorfer, 64, Bladder Cancer
- He dropped his insurance in 2002. Unable to tolerate chemo, he has opted for only palliative care.
- Vincent Santillo, 38, Prostate Cancer
- Five years ago, Santillo, a private-equity banker, had just married his male partner of ten years when a routine exam turned up a tumor.
- Video: April 20, 2007
- One hundred forty-three cancer patients gather in Central Park for our cover shoot.