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A Final Remembrance for Leroy Sievers
Ted Koppel has a final remembrance for Leroy Sievers. This is the final podcast episode of My Cancer. You can still find the My Cancer blog at npr.org/mycancer and listen to past podcasts there. Thanks to everyone who listened....

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[ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:29:22 -0400 ]


Remembering 'My Cancer' Blogger Leroy Sievers
'My Cancer' blogger Leroy Sievers passed away this weekend. To Ted Koppel he was a journalistic partner and close friend. Koppel talks about Sievers' battle with cancer and the community he left behind....

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[ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:16:39 -0400 ]


Leroy Sievers: A Farewell In His Own Words
Commentator Leroy Sievers died over the weekend at his home outside Washington, D.C. He was 53. As a television journalist, he covered wars in Iraq, Central America, Somalia and Kosovo. After he was diagnosed with cancer, Sievers began writing his daily blog, "My Cancer," at NPR.org. Through selections of past commentaries, Sievers says goodbye in his own words....

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[ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:50:42 -0400 ]


Leroy Sievers: A Life Lived With Courage
For 25 years, journalist Leroy Sievers covered wars. But he is better known to his NPR audience through his blog and Morning Edition commentaries about his battle with colon cancer. His fight provided inspiration for the community he built up online. On Friday, Leroy Sievers died at the age of 53....

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[ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:50:39 -0400 ]


Live Chat with Leroy Sievers from 9 July 2008
Following Leroy Siever's appearance on Talk of the Nation on July 9, 2008, he participated in a live chat with members of the My Cancer community....

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[ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:50:28 -0400 ]


Leroy Sievers, Elizabeth Edwards: Life With Cancer
Leroy Sievers, former broadcast journalist and author of the My Cancer blog on NPR.org, talks candidly about the challenges and triumphs of battling cancer. Elizabeth Edwards, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, joins the conversation....

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[ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:49:45 -0400 ]


My Cancer, 2 Years Later
When he started his blog, Leroy Sievers thought he had six months to live. Doctors found a brain tumor and lung cancer. Today, on My Cancer's second anniversary, he's facing a prognosis just as bleak....

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[ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:17:44 -0400 ]


Surgery Day
Today, Leroy Sievers is undergoing a complicated, eight-hour procedure to remove the tumor on his spine....

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[ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:04:23 EDT ]


Waiting for the Showdown
Leroy Sievers says that he and his cancer are playing a deadly waiting game, each holding out for a final victory....

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[ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:56:20 EDT ]


What Would You Choose to Forget?
Leroy Sievers is getting ready to start a new medication that could have an unusual side effect. Now if only he can remember when his next blog entry is due ......

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[ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:01:34 EDT ]


The Tortoise and the Hare
After undergoing some pretty intense medical procedures, Leroy Sievers is waiting to have his next set of scans to see if they've been effective in treating his cancer. And for once, he's not in any hurry to get it done....

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[ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:44:37 EDT ]


Autumn Without Urgency
Leroy Sievers is ready to enjoy autumn, his favorite season. A year ago he was afraid that autumn might be his last. Now he has lost that sense of urgency....

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[ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:50:43 EDT ]


Haunted by a Phantom Future
After a round of particularly unpleasant procedures, Leroy Sievers reflects on the phenomenon of phantom pain that amputees can experience. He decides he has a phantom future, because he just can't stop looking ahead and making plans...

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[ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:54:13 EDT ]


A Frightening and All-Too-Familiar Routine
Leroy finds himself back in the emergency room, anxiously awaiting test results, and having serious consultations with doctors ... but there's a very big difference this time....

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[ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:55:40 EDT ]


Now in the Role of Sisyphus: Cancer
Leroy Sievers says having cancer is starting to make him feel like Sisyphus - the character in Greek mythology who was doomed to push a boulder up a hill, only to see it roll down and have to do the whole thing over again, day after day. After reading a little more about the myth, however, Leroy decides it's cancer that plays the role of Sisyphus, and his job is to create insurmountable obstacles for the disease every day....

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[ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:02:05 EDT ]


Now in the Role of Sisyphus: Cancer
Leroy Sievers says having cancer is starting to make him feel like Sisyphus - the character in Greek mythology who was doomed to push a boulder up a hill, only to see it roll down and have to do the whole thing over again, day after day. After reading a little more about the myth, however, Leroy decides it's cancer that plays the role of Sisyphus, and his job is to create insurmountable obstacles for the disease every day....

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[ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:54:23 EDT ]


Time Heals Tortured Land and Broken Soul
Leroy Sievers recalls the time he spent covering the genocide in Rwanda and Zaire and its aftermath. He says, years later, he was able to find peace by revisiting the site of the refugee camps, and he hopes someday to find such peace again as he deals with cancer....

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[ Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:22:14 EDT ]


Cancer Doesn't Care Whether You Want to Go
The phrase "I'm not going," famously said by a soldier entering battle in the movie Apocalypse Now, now has new meaning for Leroy Sievers as he navigates the difficult terrain that makes up Cancer World....

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[ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:22:16 EDT ]


The Legacy of a Day Well Lived
Leroy discusses a new book that speculates about what the earth would be like if all humans disappeared ... and wonders what will be left behind whenever he is gone....

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[ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:41:00 EDT ]


The Legacy of a Day Well Lived
Leroy discusses a new book that speculates about what the earth would be like if all humans disappeared ... and wonders what will be left behind whenever he is gone....

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[ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:35:56 EDT ]


About As Good As It's Going to Get
Leroy Sievers learns that he has to hurry up and wait, yet again. After another round of tests and consultations, his doctors want to wait a month or two to see if his new tumors are growing before they decide whether Leroy should have a new kind of radiation therapy....

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[ Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:02:59 EDT ]


How to Tell a Local from a Visitor
Leroy Sievers talks about what it means to be a "local" as opposed to a newcomer. He used to feel like a local at one special Southern California beach when he was growing up. Now he feels like a local in the cancer world, compared to people he encounters who have recently been diagnosed....

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[ Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:38:56 EDT ]


The Toughest Kids on the Block
A year and a half after his second diagnosis with cancer, Leroy Sievers talks about what it's like being a cancer patient for the long haul. He says as bad as it is to deal with repeated rounds of chemo, radiation and tests, the mental exhaustion is even tougher....

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[ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:12:25 EDT ]


Difficult Decisions in Uncharted Waters
Bad news times two ... Leroy Sievers recently learned that his cancer has reappeared, in the form of some small tumors on his spine. Not good news, but at least it's easily taken care of, he thought, the way his doctors had taken care of it before, with radiation therapy. Now Leroy finds that the previous radiation treatments he's had could make it dangerous for him to have more, so he has to consider more intrusive therapies with more serious side effects....

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[ Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:52:14 EDT ]


Life Is Never the Same
For cancer patients, there are many days that can abruptly change life's course. Scan days are among the worst....

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[ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:57:41 EDT ]


Cleaning Out a Closet Full of Memories
Leroy Sievers does a little spring cleaning, getting rid of mementos from different wars he's covered as a journalist. He realizes he hasn't kept too many souvenirs of his struggle with cancer....

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[ Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:11:48 EDT ]


The Faces of Cancer
Leroy Sievers says when he dies, he'll be remembered for two things: the My Cancer project and a program he produced at Nightline that memorialized American troops who had died in Iraq. He says he can see some similarities between the two projects....

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[ Tue, 29 May 2007 10:11:26 EDT ]


A Difficult Line to Walk
Leroy Sievers has been spending way too much time in hospitals lately undergoing chemo therapy treatment for cancer and has this reflection on his condition....

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[ Fri, 11 May 2007 12:22:13 EDT ]


Hawaii: It's Just a Vacation, Really!
Leroy Sievers is about to leave for a vacation in Hawaii, and it's presenting him with an unusual problem. Because he's had cancer, his friends all think this must mean that he's dying. So he has to let everyone know, it's just a regular, fun-filled vacation, and he'll be back....

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[ Mon, 07 May 2007 10:22:29 EDT ]


Good News and a Trip to the Bakery
Leroy Sievers is on an upswing on the roller coaster today ... he just found out that a scan of his brain came back clean. That means he still has no active tumors, and he's ready to celebrate....

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[ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:26:24 EDT ]

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