Learning What to Look for in a Cancer Specialist

Learning What to Look for in a Cancer Specialist
Some doctors fail to listen to their patients, one reason someone diagnosed with cancer may want to shop around. 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.
As someone who favors treating my maladies as holistically as possible, I struggled with the idea of treating my stage 3 rectal cancer with chemotherapy.