Empowering Cancer Warriors with Inspiring Words on LA Butterfly
Welcome to LA Butterfly's cancer empowerment hub, where words have the power to lift spirits and bring hope. Find the inspiration and support you need to navigate your cancer journey with grace and strength.
If you’re feeling hopeless in the face of cancer, know that you are not alone. At LA Butterfly, we believe in the power of words to heal and transform lives. That’s why we’ve curated inspiring messages from people who have lived with cancer or overcome various hardships worldwide.
We hope these words can ignite a spark of hope in your heart and empower you to take control of your life. Remember, you are strong and resilient, and you have the power within you to overcome any obstacle.
Together, let’s believe in the power of words and let them light the way towards a brighter future.
Her young friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, which made Kae decide to have a biopsy proactively, which revealed she had breast cancer in 2012. Over the course of her cancer journey, Kae received a lot of support from friends and survivors. As a result, she founded c-ribbons, an NPO that helps cancer patients. Now, she is starting up her jewelry brand, Nahana.
CANCER TYPE Breast Cancer in 2012 HOME Tokyo PROFESSION Writer and model
“It’s okay not to see it sometimes, but you’re not alone”.
-Kae Fujimori-
“Even though there are friends and family we can trust around us, we sometimes close our hearts”.
-Kae Fujimori-
Margaret Keswick Jencks was a Scottish writer, artist, and garden designer who co-founded Maggie’s Centres.
Maggie’s Centres welcome cancer patients and their families around the world. She passed away on July 8th, 1995, a year before the first Maggie’s Centre was built.
CANCER TYPE Breast Cancer HOME Scotland PROFESSION Writer, artist, and garden designer
“Above all what matters is not to lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”.
-Margaret Keswick Jencks-
“Don’t get frantic about food. Follow these guidelines eighty percent of the time – and twenty percent indulge a little”.
-Margaret Keswick Jencks-
“Above all they emphasise the importance of the patient’s own involvement with their treatment, something born out by Bernie Siegel and the Simontons’ findings, that ‘difficult’ patients do better than passive ones”.
-Margaret Keswick Jencks-
“She saw in herself, despite her initial fears, how much better she felt when she began to take an active role in her own treatment”.
-Marcia Blakenham’s foreword to Margaret Keswick Jencks –
Naoto is a two-time cancer survivor and was an oncologist at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is an active advocator for patient empowerment and presented the theme at TEDxTokyo in 2011.
Naoto is the director of the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center.
CANCER TYPE MFH (malignant fibrous histiocytoma) in 2008/ MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome) in 2014
HOME Honolulu PROFESSION Oncologist HOBBY Listening to the music of Perfume (Techno-pop group)
“Challenge your care, it is about ownership so you could empower this process and become a participant of your care”
-Naoto Ueno-
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