So, your friend endured any number of treatments: chemotherapy, lumpectomy or mastectomy, possibly reconstruction, radiation therapy… and then when scans were done, instead of hearing the magical words “remission” or “cured,” your friend heard, “your cancer has metastasized to the…” (usually the bones, liver, brain, spine, or lungs). Now your friend, instead of “beating cancer,” has received news that is terrifying. Sometimes this happens years later (recurrent breast cancer), and sometimes it happens at the original diagnosis (called “de novo”), and sometimes–like in my case–it happens right at what was supposed to be the end of “one horrible chapter in an otherwise healthy life,” right when I was supposed to hear “remission.”
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