Chloe P | What We Talk About (When We Talk About Cancer)

A Beautiful Thing

Chloe P | Patient | 01-16-2014

Community is a beautiful thing. It is something everyone has, but they have to be willing to take part in it. Right before I was diagnosed with

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They are Everything

Chloe P | Patient | 11-20-2013

I feel so blessed to have my family. To me, they are everything. When I was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 2010, I didn’t

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Fearless

Chloe P | Patient | 09-29-2013

The definition of fear is distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined;…

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Being Healthy is a Gift

Chloe P | Patient | 08-20-2013

Being healthy is a gift. Most people don’t know how good they have it until they are unhealthy and get sick. Whether it’s the common cold

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This is a place where anyone who counts themselves as a member of the Mass General Cancer Center community --- patient, family member, physician, nurse, researcher, social worker, care giver, administrator --- can come to read, think, and write about the words we all use, but which we don’t always understand in the same way. Often we use words and phrases that are common, that we use every day. Yet, their very familiarity creates the illusion of common understanding where, the fact is, we are frequently using these words in radically different ways, with radically different meanings. In our small way, WWTA is meant to help us work toward a common language and make the conversations we have about cancer more meaningful.

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