Category: overall approach
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So You Were Just Diagnosed? Start Here.
There is something particularly memorable (horrible) about the moment that someone mentions the word “cancer” and you in the same sentence. Mine was the morning of August 23rd, 2018, the day after a routine screening colonoscopy. I received the call from a friend who happened to run the local pathology group. It still sucked. My…
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Type & Stage: What Does This Mean?
Determining your stage occurs after your docs determine if/where the cancer has spread, many times after surgery. Pardon my shorthand…but…is the mass localized? Stage 1 or 2. Some lymph nodes? Stage 3. Mets all over the place? Stage 4. After the big surgery, I was informed that I was stage 3a (low risk stage 3)…
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Chemotherapy, aka Medical Oncology
OK, take this a section at a time. There is a bunch of information here, you do not need to attempt to digest in all at once. If having Chemo, there are common waypoints people experience – Being Unapologetically Immunocompromised For some, surgical placement of a port to infuse chemo The “informed consent” conversation. Your…
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