Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor is a collection of essays from the first six years of Wildfire Magazine. Organized by age at diagnosis — breast cancer arriving in their 20s, 30s, and 40s — these stories will make you laugh, cry, and feel like you’re sitting with a best friend, hearing every aspect of how cancer has impacted their lives, for better or worse.

Whether you have been diagnosed with breast cancer yourself, are a caregiver to someone else, or just want to read stories about having hope on the darkest days, this is the book for you. Inside are 50 under 50: fifty unique stories from people diagnosed under 50 years old, providing a view inside today's unique young breast cancer community. We believe in stories of transformation to heal ourselves and others in the face of cancer, and that's what these personal essays each bring to this book. Each writer gets vulnerable and really shows how to take a difficult circumstance and live with it — not just survive.

Foreward by Cancer Vixen author Marisa Acocella. Compiled and edited by April Stearns and Emily Piercell. More than 50 contributing writers from inside today’s young breast cancer community.