D-Day: When the Diagnosis Dropped

D-Day: When the Diagnosis Dropped
Sometimes it is hard even for doctors to say the word "cancer." Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
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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.

My fear was steadily rising in the days leading up to my diagnosis, but when the word finally came, it landed like a punch in the stomach.