This is a request for both
my cancer and non-cancer blog readers. What are the myths that you have/had
about cancer? I am going to be taking part in an educational seminar at The
Wellness Community about how faith-based communities can assist cancer patients
and their caregivers through the cancer journey, and the organizer is starting
the seminar out by showing how myths about cancer aren't always true. I started
thinking about this, and wondered - what are some of the myths that you have
heard about cancer.
Of course, one of my biggies is that cancer doesn't happen to young adults. (Sigh - of course, it does.) Some others:
- Cancer
is a death sentence.
- Cancer
patients all look sickly - bald, grey, ghastly, like death-warmed-over.
- Chemo
means you will go bald.
- You
can't have a normal life while/after your cancer treatment.
Are there others that you
have dealt with? Please let me know. I would love to send this off to Jamie, to
give him some real-people insight into what myths we can bust at this event.
Comments:
Carol
Urban said...
This
didn't happen to me but my SIL is a 17 year colon cancer survivor and she said
people she knew/friends stopped calling after she was diagnosed. They must have
thought cancer was contagious!
May
6, 2009 at 3:33 PM
I
was always in the idea that if my family member was to have cancer than it was
most likely that other family members were to have it also.
May
8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
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