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I was shocked. Michelle Reese never thought she’d hear the word cancer about herself, let alone have Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But that was the diagnosis the now 36-year-old faced in 2024.
What kind of treatment would be done? Was she going to lose her hair? One of the first things she searched on Google was headwraps for chemotherapy hair loss. One of the most difficult Google image searches of her life.
“There was nothing that felt authentic to me, nothing that was fashionable, nothing that would give me this kind of uplifting feeling when I really needed it,” Reese says.
She shared her dilemma with her friend and colleague Shari Zofnat Yosef, a caregiver for her brother who is undergoing treatment for colon cancer. A few days later, Zofnat Yosef sent her a collage of clickable links that included photos of scarves and hats. Bright, colorful, and beautiful. “I can handle this,” Reese thought. “I can be myself. I can be myself while undergoing cancer treatment.”
This exchange evolved into Jadey, a cancer resource for people facing a cancer diagnosis and those who want to support others, which the two launched in October 2025. However, the site is particularly useful for young women. We’ll provide you with everything from answers to medical and lifestyle questions on topics like infertility treatments to recommendations on skin care items to use during chemotherapy. Users can search for articles, product guides, and advice from editors, medical professionals, and patients, as well as create their own registry for family and friends to shop. This is a much less clinical package than what you get from other websites.
“You have to know that it’s going to be a little crazy,” says Zoffnat Yosef, 46, of her battle with cancer. “You need to know how to have certain conversations. You need to know what questions to ask.”
It couldn’t come at a more important time. Breast, liver, ovarian, and colorectal cancers are among the 17 cancer types that are on the rise among Gen Xers and Millennials, according to a 2024 American Cancer Society study.
Alexandra Strelczyk, 34, was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in May 2025 while trying to conceive her third child. She appreciates how J-Day covers topics that other news organizations shy away from. “Whether it was about infertility or intimacy, it might have been a taboo.”
“Talk about this moment” on the rise in cancer among millennials
What is the origin of the name “Jady”? Jade is a plant and a stone, and in Oriental medicine it means balance, healing, and health. Conversely, when you or someone you know receives a cancer diagnosis, they’re probably a little disgusted. I think it might be a friend’s name, too.
Cancer is increasingly infiltrating the lives of young people, but there is little roadmap for how to proceed. Jaydee is keen to fill that gap. For example, its registry options alleviate the inevitable headlights that people experience when they learn of someone’s cancer diagnosis and don’t know how to help. Just like marriage and baby registries, cancer registries allow you to customize what you need so you don’t have to ask anyone else.
Not every website can hold all the answers. When you visit Jadey’s website, you will receive a notice that its content does not constitute medical advice and that you should seek a qualified medical professional.
Many people have expressed to Jadey’s founders that they wish this program had existed when they were first diagnosed with cancer. “I think this speaks to the fact that so many young people are being diagnosed and so many people are on the brink of death or living long lives with chronic diagnoses and years of treatment,” Reese said.
The goal is not necessarily to “cure” cancer. “You can live a very full and meaningful life living with cancer and continuing treatment, or living with the fear that it might come back after treatment, but it doesn’t mean your cancer is over,” Reese says. “You’re never on the other side 100%.”
The “lifesaving” impact of storytelling
J-Day is challenging the conventional wisdom of what it’s like to experience cancer. This resonates with Streltzik. “Don’t assume I’m frail or sad or not feeling well,” she says. This is because there is wide variation in how people respond to treatment and what they need at any given moment.
“I think people get too caught up in, ‘I don’t want to make someone uncomfortable,’ or ‘I don’t want to be an extra burden,'” says Lauren McDermott, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2024, just before her 22nd birthday. Now 23, she appreciates that Jadey is a place where she can focus on real stories and not just hard-to-understand medical jargon. After a double mastectomy and radiation therapy, she will likely be undergoing hormone therapy for the next 10 years and is in medically induced menopause.
Jadey is primarily popular with millennial women, but is a resource for all identities. Ash Davidson, 46, welcomed the opportunity to share his experiences as a trans man on the platform. His doctor discovered breast cancer during a long-awaited top surgery in 2022. Devastated is too soft a word to describe his state of mind.
Afterwards, he said through tears that sharing his experience with Jaydee was a painkiller. “When you find an organization, when you find a platform, when you find a place to amplify and showcase stories like mine and ours, it saves lives.”
“We need a place where there are as many stories as humanly possible of all the different kinds of people who get cancer, not just a handful,” Davidson added.
