How Seeing a Therapist Prepared Me for a Conversation With My Tumor

How Seeing a Therapist Prepared Me for a Conversation With My Tumor
Therapy can provide essential techniques in dealing with the mental burden that comes with cancer. wavebreakmedia/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.

Before I was diagnosed with cancer, I had already been working with a therapist for more than a year.