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Cancer in a pandemic, at age 20: a new opportunity every day

No one—including me—would have believed that abdominal pain 30 minutes after lunch meant cancer. I wasn’t scared. “Must have been the food,” I thought. So what if I had been feeling tired? Yes, I had felt less energetic for a while, less motivated to do my daily activities. I thought I was just tired of […]

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