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    Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland
    Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland
    Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland
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    Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland

    By Meaghan Calcari Campbell, LaurieHP and RobinBW

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    Living with breast cancer can be absurd. Often, though, the absurdities are kept behind the curtain and shared only with other women living in Cancerland—the tactless comment from a co-worker about how attractive we used to be when we still had hair, breast implants that explode or prostheses that are left behind, accidentally, in the vacation house, and a new wig that makes a woman feel more like Tina Turner than herself. You’ll never hear more raucous laughter than that coming from a room full of women sharing their breast cancer experiences. And, in a hot second, that room can turn into a puddle full of tears, given the agony of cancer—saying goodbye to parts of ourselves that are taken in the name of treatment, or to our sisters who do not survive this disease. In bringing these stories forward, we share the painful, the profound, and the ridiculous. We heal, too. And, through these stories, we hope to increase the understanding of the young patient and survivor experience, and to illuminate the dark spaces for those who will walk this path in the future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMeaghan Calcari Campbell
    Release dateSep 14, 2016
    ISBN9781537095455
    Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland
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    Meaghan Calcari Campbell

    The Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS) is a support and action group for young people in the San Francisco Bay Area who are living with breast cancer and were diagnosed before the age of forty-five. The goal of BAYS is to break the isolation of living with breast cancer, by providing a community built on compassion, understanding, hope, and inspiration.

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