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Slide 1 Mental Health Ups and Downs With Colon Cancer Living with colon cancer may be hard on your mental health, but knowing what to expect may help Slide 2 Waiting for a Diagnosis If you’re concerned that you have colon cancer, waiting for an answer can be hard. As you wait, you may feel: […]
As told to Jacquelyne Froeber In 1994, I was in the emergency room when the healthcare provider told me pancreatic cancer was only diagnosed in 65-year-old Black men. But there I was — a 44-year-old white woman with a mass on my pancreas. The whole scene felt like a bad dream. Just an hour earlier […]
As told to Jacquelyne Froeber “I’ve never seen anything as invasive as this in my life,” my surgeon said. I was still groggy from the anesthesia, but the look on his face meant what I heard was true. Apparently, I was in surgery for six hours — not two — and whatever was growing in […]