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In the World of Cancer, Words Matter
As was the case when my wife and I learned she had stage III breast cancer, a diagnosis is devastating to patients and their immediate family members. Our mental health was pushed to the limit in handling the associated shock, fear, and grief. Journalist Alexandra Glorioso fittingly wrote about her own diagnosis, “…whatever cancer isn’t doing to [the] body, it’s definitely doing to [the] mind.”