💬 In Their Own Words
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re collaborating with Know Your Lemons to honor the strength, hope, and voices of survivors and caregivers who remind us what resilience looks like.
🎗️ Read more stories at OurCancerStories.com
🍋 Learn the signs at KnowYourLemons.org
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #OurCancerStories #KnowYourLemons #BreastCancerAwareness #SurvivorStories #TogetherWeHeal
We asked your favorite clinicians and medfluencers at #HLTH2025 to share ONE cancer tip everyone should know — kicking off the series with @blooddocdad!
What would you add?
#HLTH2025 #HLTHUSA #PatientVoices #CancerAwareness #DigitalHealth #PatientEngagement #OurCancerStories
Get rewarded while taking care of yourself? Yes, please! 🌟
We’re excited to feature @myoptimity on our Cancer Care page — the most rewarding micro-learning app that helps millions of members live healthier, better, and longer!
Psst — cancer awareness quizzes are coming soon! Watch this space. 💗
Download Optimity at link in bio!
*The app is currently available to users in the United States and Canada only.
#MyOptimity #CancerCare #NotSponsored #FYP #OurCancerStories
Finishing treatment doesn’t always mean everything suddenly feels normal again. 💛
For many survivors, the journey after cancer comes with its own quiet challenges, learning to feel at home in a changed body, rebuilding confidence, navigating relationships differently, and figuring out who they are beyond treatment.
That part of survivorship deserves to be talked about too.
Thankful to platforms like Our Cancer Stories for creating space for patients and survivors to share their experiences honestly and remind others that they are not alone in what comes after. ✨
Healing is not always linear. Sometimes it looks like small steps, patience, support from loved ones, and slowly finding pieces of yourself again.
Read the Full Guest Blog Article by @our.cancer.stories
🔗 https://wearebewell.com/blogs/news/finding-your-way-back-to-yourself-after-cancer
#CancerSurvivor #CancerJourney #CancerSupport #ChronicIllness #aftercancer
Did you know your gut health could be connected to your cancer risk?
We’re excited to feature @gutidhealth on our Cancer Care page — a microbiome test that gives you a complete picture of your gut health, with personalised food, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations to give you the tools to make impactful health decisions.
Because taking care of your body starts from the inside out. 💚
Check your gut health today: https://www.ourcancerstories.com/cancer-care?partner=microbiome-test&utm_source=Instagram&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=social&utm_content=partners
#GutID #MicrobiomeTest #NotSponsored #FYP #OurCancerStories
Whatever team you’re on, your health comes first. 🌸
According to Office on Women’s Health, many screenings that begin in your 20s, 30s, and 40s should occur regularly across the lifespan. Here’s a quick guide*:
💚 In your 20s:
- Cervical cancer (Pap smear) screening at 21 and every 3 years after.
🧡 In your 30s:
- Breast health discussion with your doctor if you have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation or a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer.
💙 In your 40s:
- Mammogram every 1-2 years starting at 40.
- Colon cancer screening at 45.
💜 In your 50s and beyond:
- Lung cancer screening at 50 if you have a smoking history.
Talk to your health care provider about what routine screenings are right for you. Learn more about cancer prevention at ourcancerstories.com.
#WomensHealthWeek #CancerPrevention #EarlyDetectionSavesLife #FYP #OurCancerStories
*https://womenshealth.gov/sites/default/files/_documents/2026/nwhw/health_screenings_508_final.pdf
Your story doesn’t end with a diagnosis. It evolves. 💗
We’re honoured to sit down with @dana_donofree, breast cancer survivor, founder, and the woman behind @anaonointimates, a brand designing intimates that help people feel comfortable, confident, and beautiful in bodies changed by cancer.
Read Dana’s full story at link in bio.
#AnaOno #DanaDonofree #NeverAlone #BreastCancer #OurCancerStories
AnaOno partners with Our Cancer Stories to celebrate storytelling, lived experiences, and the deeply personal journeys that shape how we see our bodies and ourselves.
If theres one thing we believe deeply, it’s this: your story matters. And when its shared, it has the power to help someone else feel “never alone”🤍
She listened to herself. 🧡
Leanne-Maree had no textbook symptoms of uterine cancer. Just a quiet, persistent feeling that something wasn’t right.
Read how she trusted her instincts, fought for answers, and came out the other side stronger at link in bio.
#UterineCancer #CancerAwareness #FYP #FacingCancerTogether #OurCancerStories
You have cancer. You have kids. No one prepared you for this. @picklesgroup is here to help. 💛
Finding the right words to explain cancer to your children is one of the hardest parts of the journey no one talks about.
Pickles Family Cancer Support Kits is a free how-to guide for diagnosed parents, with age-appropriate conversations, coping tools, and family activities to help you navigate this together.
Get your free kits here at link in bio.
#FreeCancerResources #CancerCare #NotSponsored #FYP #OurCancerStories
Everything you need to know about uterine cancer — from the facts to the real stories. 🧡
Explore more uterine cancer resources at link in bio.
#UterineCancer #CancerAwareness #FYP #FacingCancerTogether #OurCancerStories
Breast surgery decisions are never easy, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. 💝
We’re excited to feature @breastadvocate on our Cancer Care page — a free app giving patients access to a continuously updated library of medical research and expert-backed information, right at your fingertips.
Completely free. Always in your corner.
Explore the app at link in bio.
#BreastAdvocate #NotSponsored #FYP #FacingCancerTogether #OurCancerStories
