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.
So much about the cancer treatment process for me has been about confronting and eventually conquering my fears. Needless to say, this was certainly the case when facing my first ever surgery on May 29, 2018, to remove the tumor and place the ileostomy. I was absolutely terrified.
