Stories from the Chronic Side of Cancer
Nonfiction / Health / Cancer
Date Published: November 15, 2024
As medical advancements accelerate, more people are living long lives with cancer. The Big C2 delves into how survivors can become thrivers, despite the challenges of a chronic cancer fluctuating between the need for immediate attention and the patience for watchful waiting. Through a collection of essays and interviews, it aims to enlighten the conversation around chronic cancer among patients, their loved ones and healthcare professionals. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone feeling alone or misunderstood while navigating this complex landscape. It offers transformative personal insights, tools and experience-based hope, emphasizing the importance of open, honest conversations to empower and support those affected.
People don’t generally wish for cancer.
(A good editor would strike that headline. It’s a bit too obvious, right?)
Let me rephrase: Though people don’t generally wish for cancer, a “chronic” label that comes with a Big C diagnosis can be a game changer – and that would be the game of life.
Our scientific advances, accelerating research and improved treatments mean more people are living long and productive lives with a cancer that is either perpetually front and center or happily lingering behind its human facade. It may come and go or be well controlled for decades; it may require daily treatment, only periodic attention, or just watchful waiting to see if there are any changes.
Is this to say that a chronic cancer, which I fondly call the Big C2, is something to cheer about? It is if you are one of those people who would not have survived their cancer just a few years ago.
About the Author
Ruth Fein Revell is a health and life science writer with a distinguished 40-year career of published work, including for The New York Times. She has also lived with a rare chronic blood cancer for three decades. Today, she is a patient advocate, hosts global patient webinars, interviews world-renowned cancer specialists, and is the patient representative on a clinical guidelines panel of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). She lives with her husband and curly pup Ruby in a picturesque “city in the country” in Upstate New York.
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