Watch the Video Series
Emmy Award-winning 6-part video series chronicling Suleika’s challenges as a young cancer patient. Produced by Suleika Jaouad and Shayla Harris for The New York Times.
“Cancer doesn’t just put your life on hold. It’s not like you get to skip back a few months and pick up exactly where you left off. I wasn’t going to get my old life back.”
Video by Shayla Harris/The New York Times
Life, Interrupted: Facing Cancer in Your 20s
Where cancer is concerned, it’s safe to say there’s no such thing as good timing. But having a life-threatening disease in your 20s carries a special set of psychological and social challenges.
Life, Interrupted: The Beat Goes On
Music, as the saying commonly goes, can soothe even the savage beast. What about the frail beast? The sad one?
Life, Interrupted: Lost in Transition
Suleika Jaouad, who was 22 when she learned she had leukemia, has been told she is in remission, but said she felt far from healthy at age 26.