The conversation about what “community” means to us continues on, but let’s review what has been discussed so far. Jennifer wrote in our most recent perspective piece, having a community around every person affected by cancer is a vital part of care:

“It really does take a community to overcome the challenges that patients and caregivers face each and every day”

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The conversation about what “community” means to us is coming to an end, and, as Jennifer wrote in our most recent perspective piece, having a community around every person affected by cancer is a vital part of care:

“It really does take a community to overcome the challenges that patients and caregivers face each and every day”

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What is a community? To me a community is a group of people who share the same goals and who support and respect each other.

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My feelings about ‘community,’ especially as pertains to cancer, are conflicted. On one hand is Groucho Marx, who once said that

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The word “community” can be defined as  “a group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.”  The patients, family members,

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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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Communities come in all shapes & sizes. Community for our little family is made up of family, neighbors, colleagues, and school friends. While I was sick,

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