Finding My Cancer Team

Finding My Cancer Team
Carefully choosing the doctors and others who will help you on your cancer journey can ease some of the burdens that treatment inevitably brings. Stock-Asso/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.

When I last left you, I had shared details of my three-day orientation at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) in Philadelphia. The intense but helpful schedule gave me a peek inside their whole-person cancer treatment approach.