Being a teen is hard. Being a teen when your parent has cancer is harder. Today's show features Marc and Maya Silver, a father and daughter duo that co-wrote the book, My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks. In their book, Marc & Maya reflect on their own personal experiences to offer insights on the difficulties of being a teen whose parent is diagnosed with cancer.

June is National Men’s Health Month, a time to raise awareness of health issues specific to men and encourage early detection and treatment of disease. In America, men’s health issues can often be overlooked or ignored. Men are statistically far less likely to go to a doctor than women, feel less comfortable reporting health problems and are more likely to face social stigma for reaching out for emotional support. On today's episode, guest host Linda House is joined by Brandon Leonard of the Men's Health Network to take a deeper look at health issues facing men today.

In this third installment of the Innovation Happens series, host Kim Thiboldeaux takes a look at an unexpected route to innovation by talking to teen inventor Jack Andraka. Jack was just fifteen years old when he invented an inexpensive early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancers. His groundbreaking work has earned him international recognition, most notably the 2012 Intel ISEF Gordon Moore Award and the 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award. Jack was First Lady Michelle Obama’s personal guest at the 2013 State of the Union Address. Jack is now a seventeen year old high school senior and hasn’t slowed down a bit.

In spite of the fact that up to 60% of patients undergoing treatment for cancer develop chemo brain to some degree, many patients and their loved ones are caught off guard when they experience difficulty concentrating, finding the right words, short term memory loss, and multitasking. Chemo brain can have a significant impact on quality of life. Joining host Kim Thiboldeaux to explain this phenomenon, how it can impact your life, how the brain works and what treatments can help are guests Sue Harden, cancer survivor and Dr. Fremonta Meyer, staff psychiatrist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Just five months after her son Víctor was born in 2009, Leslie Rivera Quiroz was diagnosed with stage 4 of Burkitt’s lymphoma, the most aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After her aggressive treatment, Leslie found support at her local Cancer Support Community Affiliate in Dallas, and found strength, both physically and mentally, through an exercise program. She captured her battle against cancer in her inspirational memoir, Victorious: My Story as a Cancer Survivor. On today’s show, host Kim Thiboldeaux is joined by Leslie and her friend and health coach, Gene Mosely.

Immunotherapy is one of the most exciting emerging areas of cancer treatment. Many experts now believe that it is well on its way to becoming a pillar of cancer treatment, along with surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. The interest in immunotherapy isn't new. Researchers have been studying this for a long time, up until recently with disappointing results. Joining host Kim Thiboldeaux to discuss this exciting treatment option is Dr. Kim Lyerly, Heather DiFilippo and Patty Spears.

Summertime is a time when people take time off from work and children and young adults take time off from school to experience new challenges, embark on adventures and just have fun. But for people impacted by cancer taking time off from cancer may seem impossible and improbable. It could be that taking time off from cancer is just what is called for though. Perhaps it brings benefits you might not find otherwise. In Part 2 of our special series, Take a break from cancer, we talk about taking a break from cancer with Brad Ludden, Founder of First Descents.

With summer quickly approaching, a question you hear time and time again is “What are your summer vacation plans?” Vacations offer a time for adventure and fun, as well as relaxation and rejuvenation. For families facing a cancer diagnosis, a vacation may be the furthest thing from their minds, but maybe it shouldn’t be. In this first part of a special two part series, our guest is Marci Schankweiler, the Founder and President of For Pete’s Sake Cancer Respite Foundation.

This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Amgen’s Breakaway from Cancer initiative, which aims to spread awareness of the free resources available to people during each step of the cancer journey. In this episode, CSC sat down with Amgen’s Richard Paulson and actress Katherine Kelly Lang of The Bold and the Beautiful to talk about the strides made over the years and how the Breakaway from Cancer initiative continues to educate, support and give hope to people impacted by cancer.

We know dogs have an amazing sense of smell, but can they really detect cancer? And if in fact they can, how can we exploit that ability? Our guests Dr. Donald Bodenner and Dr. Arny Ferranda, researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), are trying to answer just that question as it relates to thyroid cancer.