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.
In my very first article, I equated a cancer diagnosis and going through treatment to being kidnapped, tied up, and tormented for ages in a cold dark basement, and then suddenly set free from captivity one day. Well, March 20, 2019, was the day I was finally set free.
