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Meg Gaffney surprised doctors and friends by rejecting chemotherapy, dropping out of radiation therapy after one treatment, and opting for a bilateral mastectomy. As a nurse and a patient, Meg is her own advocate, even moments before surgery.

Shannon Miller is the most decorated American gymnast in history and arguably one of our nation's top athletes. Her entire life is dedicated to health and wellness, but suddenly, her world turned upside down when she was diagnosed with cancer at 34.

Many women expect to lose their hair with chemo, but there's so many other things that happen to a body, too. That's why these two women have written the first beauty bible for cancer patients.

Health care. Two words that stir passions and causes discussions. Author Shannon Brownlee is one woman who believes health care in America needs fixing and she's taking it upon herself to make the change.

Fit, feisty and full of life, Meg Gaffney is one more thing -- the face of breast cancer. The path Meg has chosen for treatment is not for everyone; in fact, she's doing something no one has done before. This is the first in a series of exclusive reports.

Bob Ellal is a four-time cancer survivor who says he's learned the key to surviving a "terminal" illness -- harnessing the mind-body connection to complement western medicine. He shares what he's learned about an ancient Chinese practice.

Award-winning filmmaker Peter Starr says his own experiences with prostate cancer prompted him to travel the world seeking answers and alternative treatments for the disease. Find out why he thinks surgery and drugs aren't always the answer.

We love to tell the stories of cancer survivors, people who stare death in the face, beat it, then go on to live rich, fulfilling lives. But it doesn't always happen that way. Meet a woman who died trying to get access to a life-saving vaccine.

After discovering that her breast cancer had metastasized, Tami Boehmer turned to the Internet to discover people like her -- the people who statistics are not kind to. What she found changed her life forever.

What if you could not only prevent cancer but also reverse it? What if everything we think we know about treating cancer is wrong? A leader in the field of optimal health explains why he believes the war on cancer has been a colossal failure.