Living with cancer? Yes you can! Read this beautiful piece about one of the NBA’s greatest stars to understand how a leukemia diagnosis led Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to look inside his winner’s soul and decide that not even cancer would get in the way of him being exactly who he is: athlete, writer, scholar, parent, friend — and now a messenger eager to share the news that as long as he follows doctor’s orders and takes care of himself, “…You can continue to live a productive life without changing your lifestyle that much….”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/sports/basketball/10rhoden.html?_r=1&hp