Getting a Second Opinion

Cancer is a complex disease with different potential treatments—if you ask

Not all cancer facilities look like hospitals, and not all doctors act like your opinion doesn't matter. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

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.

I remember my first contact with the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) as if it were yesterday.