
Don’t Define Me By My Cancer
By Patricia Prijatel on May 3rd, 2011 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyPeople who have lived through cancer just want to get on with their lives — head into the future like everybody else, free of cancer, free of its memory. That’s why the labels others affix to us can make us especially testy.
Take, for example, the label survivor. Please. It look me a while after diagnosis to understand why this word annoyed those who …