Getting a Breast Thermography Scan After Cancer

Getting a Breast Thermography Scan After Cancer
Thermography attempts to decipher what is happening inside the body by closely examining its heat signature. Anita van den Broek/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 mother had breast cancer over 20 years ago, so you can understand why I freaked out when a kidney-shaped lump appeared in my left armpit one week after I ended five and a half weeks of radiation/oral chemo treatments.