Making Peace with Cancer
Aug 21, 2018
2 minutes
By Patricia Rockman, MD
Illustration by Harry Campbell
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INSTEAD OF ASKING, “WHY ME?” WHEN DIFFICULTIES ARRIVE, WE CAN SAY, “WHY NOT ME?”
Catastrophic illnesses like cancer terrify us. You could argue, given their frequency, they should—although I have never found anxiety or worry to be particularly helpful in solving anything.
Every year, 250,000 women in the US learn they have breast cancer, and 1 in 9 women will be
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