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 was overwhelmed and exhausted after being discharged from the hospital following my rectal tumor removal and ileostomy placement surgery, but a huge uphill battle still awaited me.
