As I was finishing treatment, I made the “mistake” of asking my oncologist, Dr. Marc Hirsh, what happens if the chemo doesn’t work. “If the cancer does comes back, it probably will come back within two years, and you will die very quickly,” Marc told me as he explained I had one and only one shot at being cured because no effective treatment for recurrent colon cancer existed at that time. So the black ice of cancer turned into a nasty shadow hanging over my head. I tried various methods to get rid of cancer’s shadow. I closed my eyes tightly: I don’t see any shadow. But it was hard to go
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