Peer-to-Peer Coaching Helps Young Cancer Patients Be Themselves

For Shelby Black, 2021 was a year for anniversaries. The California native celebrated her first year living in the Triangle. She marked a significant personal health milestone — nine years in remission from brain cancer. And she began her second year of participating in Bobby's Coaches, Duke's peer support program for young adults with a cancer diagnosis and their parent caregiver.

Bobby's Coaches is named after Bobby Menges, a Duke University student who channeled his own cancer diagnosis into fundraising and mentoring college students with a chronic illness before he passed away in 2018.

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