I will always remember the phone call from my friend: “I’ve got cancer.” Was she joking? No, not with that taut tone of voice. Marianna and I were friends who happened to be nurses. Before that phone call, we’d joke that any of our abnormal symptoms—bleeding, headache, constipation—was cancer. We didn’t mean it, but it …

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