Balancing Hope and Reality After a Cancer Diagnosis

“If your doctor said, ‘I’m very sorry, but your cancer is terminal,’ you’d obviously be devastated. What if she then added, ‘The prognosis is that you have about six months left, but with treatments we can hopefully give you two or three extra months,’ would you jump at the chance?

It’s quite likely that, for most of us, the answer would be . . .”

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