“Congratulations” isn’t the usual first response to a cancer diagnosis, but that’s what Sophia Chin said to a friend who had reached out to share the news.
“I said, ‘Congratulations for going to the doctor, because that took courage,’” shares Sophia, 45, who is undergoing treatment for Stage 2 breast cancer herself. “There was a lump, you were suspicious, and you took action. That’s a good thing.”
This is in stark contrast to some of the responses she got when she broke the news of her own diagnosis in 2022. “People on the whole were very supportive, but some said things like “‘What happened?’ ‘What did you do?’” she says. “It makes you feel very guilty, like, ‘What did I do wrong?’”
The mother of two doesn’t mince words when it comes to the disease and the treatment process – “horrible” – but is equally emphatic when it comes to stressing a
