The gifts that cancer brought me

This week, 22 years ago, I was told I had breast cancer. It changed my life, and not all for the worse.

Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide. The writer is among the lucky ones who survived breast cancer. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH
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I first heard the word “cancer” applied to me 22 years ago this week, in a radiologist’s room as she peered at the grainy images on her screen during a breast ultrasound scan.

That was a lifetime ago, on the other side of the globe, in Boston, America. In the intervening years, so much has changed.

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