Staring at my ever-growing to-do list, I contemplated canceling—or at least postponing—the appointment for my annual mammogram. Next month, I reasoned, things would be a little less hectic. Why not save myself some stress? Like most, I have a fear of cancer. In 1999, I lost my 37-year-old husband in a fast battle with Hodgkin’s…
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I will never forget where I was when I received the results of my first breast MRI screening. It was June 2016, and my dad and I were in his car in a restaurant parking lot after having dinner in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia, where I had recently relocated in an effort to be…
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When Homa Sadat’s father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010, her family, including her mother and seven siblings, watched him shrink from 187 pounds to 118. Every day after work she would put on a brave face and visit her dad to lift his spirits. Then she’d head to the bathroom, close the door…
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