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  • HOME
    • The Team
    • Contact
  • Background
    • What is the thyroid gland?
    • What is cancer?
    • Types of thyroid cancer
    • What is over diagnosis?
    • Source articles
  • The monitoring experience
    • Discovering the nodule
    • Hearing the word 'cancer'
    • The process of questioning
    • Reading the medical literature
    • Cancer is not black and white
    • The risk -benefit analysis
    • Living with the decision
    • What this study means and does not mean
  • Tell us what you think!
  • Monitoring study archive
    • Welcome page
    • Basic Information
    • Detailed Information

Hearing the word 'cancer'

a typical example

I remember leaving the doctor’s office after being called in from the biopsy and walking down the street and phoning my wife and saying, “I think I’ve got cancer.” And that brings tears to one’s eyes. I mean it was a very big moment. I mean the word itself…it sort of puts the fear of death into all of us.

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