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Cancer Newsletter “Ask a lot of questions — denial is deadly.” It there’s one piece of advice 50-year-old soccer mom Wendy Sobczyk would give to others, it would be the statement above. By asking a lot of questions about the “harmless, overexposed” spots on her face, she found out she had actinic keratosis (AK), a pre-cancerous growth caused by too much exposure to ultraviolet radiation. And by taking that diagnosis seriously and using chemo cream, she prevented the pre-cancerous cells from developing into a deadly skin cancer. Discover her story and see photos and video clips of its progress, then read about breast cancer from two different points of view. All my best, Trish, The Mighty’s Cancer Editor Mom Shows What Treating Pre-Cancer With Chemo Cream Looks Like Trish Broome SKIN CANCER Editor’s note: This post contains graphic post-operative photos. Read the Story What the Rest of Us (Cancer Patients and Survivors) Can Learn from Pinktober Bob McEachern BREAST CANCER "As a cancer patient myself (follicular lymphoma, an incurable blood cancer), I have mixed feelings about it all." Read the Story This is the Reality of Breast Cancer, and Those Google Search Results Abby Stern BREAST CANCER - INFLAMMATORY How do you deal with cancer when you feel so far from being yourself? You google 'feeling ugly after breast cancer.'” Read the Story Mighty Contributor Spotlight Corie Mogenis Corie Mogenis is a thyroid cancer survivor, medical paralegal, patient advocate, author, TV host, volunteer and health blogger/writer. Read her first Mighty post, “This Is Why Thyroid Cancer is Definitely Not the ‘Good Cancer.'”

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