The series explores the reality of living with a cancer diagnosis, as experienced by a health care reporter in the midst of dealing with her own breast cancer and a family issues reporter helping her husband cope with pancreatic cancer. The issue-oriented stories weave deeply personal accounts with reporting on other patients and families, as well as perspectives from doctors, social workers and other experts in the field.
Judges’ Comments: A moving and informative series written by two women – one dealing with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer, the other with a husband battling pancreatic cancer. Written with courage and without self-pity, the stories are highly readable, successfully revealing to readers deeply personal struggles with universal implications.