"I have been grappling with the question of what makes a woman since being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, at age 30. I was born biologically female and my body progressed in that way for decades, never veering from the textbook. Puberty, estrogen, breasts, a period, you name it, if it was a trait of a "woman," I had it. Then, suddenly, a rogue cell. Next, an incessant reproduction of that cell, the forming of a tight-knit unit of these cells, a mobilization of assets, and then the motion of those cells through an otherwise healthy body.
Cancer is almost militarily systematic. It moves with stealth purpose, in trenches of tissues and ducts. And, like any effective attack, its terror reigns far beyond the starting point. It had a goal: attack and destroy "woman" wherever you find it......"
"I have been grappling with the question of what makes a woman since being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, at age 30. I was born biologically female and my body progressed in that way for decades, never veering from the textbook. Puberty, estrogen, breasts, a period, you name it, if it was a trait of a "woman," I had it. Then, suddenly, a rogue cell. Next, an incessant reproduction of that cell, the forming of a tight-knit unit of these cells, a mobilization of assets, and then the motion of those cells through an otherwise healthy body.
Cancer is almost militarily systematic. It moves with stealth purpose, in trenches of tissues and ducts. And, like any effective attack, its terror reigns far beyond the starting point. It had a goal: attack and destroy "woman" wherever you find it......"
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