Simply said, cancer is a devastating diagnosis. The world instantly becomes smaller, your focus narrows, and you’re left with many pressing personal questions. And possibly only one.
What we’ve done, thru media, thru legend, thru both fact and fiction, is make cancer a mythic beast of unusually frightening proportions. But the truth is, cancer is a disease. And a disease that can be managed, beaten, and hopefully overcome.
Norman Cousins had once said “panic, not pathology, is the greatest killer.” What I will seek to do here, is to use insight, information, and testimony to overcome that panic so that decisions can be made in the context of knowledge and not out of fear.
This will not necessarily be a place for diagnosis. It will be a place for understanding.
As a sinus cancer survivor, and now cancer support volunteer, I’ll bring my own personal stories and curiosity and present it here for both patients and caregivers. And hopefully you will see more light than dark, more detail than myth.
Onward we go – with much to explore.
– Jeff
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