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Article: The survivor monologues: life on the other side of diagnosis.
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- New York
- Article date:
- May 28, 2007
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Elizabeth Edwards. Tony Snow. Fred Thompson. The sudden commonplaceness of cancer in the political landscape--and the extent to which it is discussed as something to live with, rather than to succumb to--illustrates the degree to which our attitudes about cancer have changed in the past few years, helped along by a vast and growing medical armamentarium. Two decades ago, cancer was a sentence, with a period at the end. Now it's rambling--discursive, ending uncertain. What follows are stories that attempt to convey the blunt reality of "living with cancer," a phrase already ubiquitous and in danger of losing its specificity. No two cancers are alike; neither, as the ...