Cancer is one of the most common diseases of our age, and yet those who face it rarely know what’s about to happen to them beyond the broadest terms. “Cancer up Close” is an open recount of Michele Goncalves’s cancer journey from pre-diagnosis to life after treatment.
When I met my radiation oncologist for the first time, it was during a three-day orientation just a few weeks after my stage 3 rectal cancer diagnosis. My head felt like it was stuffed with cotton balls, and all my conversations seemed to happen in slow motion. Many of the things we discussed during that visit didn’t register.
