Sunday, January 14, 2018

My Great Escape from the Cancer State

With wit and wisdom, Carolyn Choate recounts the resilience of cancer survivors everywhere to outwit the enemy within.


PUBLISHED January 11, 2018

Carolyn Choate recently retired from the TV production industry to write full-time. Diagnosed at 45 with stage 3 estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in 2003, she underwent two radical mastectomies without reconstruction. Carolyn credits Angela Brodie, Ph.D., and her discovery of the aromatase inhibitor, for saving her life and those of millions of women globally. In the summer of 2017, Carolyn and her older daughter kayaked from New Hampshire to Baltimore in tribute to Dr. Brodie. When not informing others about Dr. Brodie and the “living flat” movement, Carolyn enjoys gardening, cooking and RVing with her family and dog.
“Cancer annihilates the possibility of living life outside cancer. It is a total state.”Siddhartha Mukherjee

Well, now, ain’t that a fine way to start the year? But there it was, big as life, staring at me from Twitter: a quote from Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” the riveting, epic tale of the very disease that once colonized my right mammary gland and lymph nodes and sought to lay claim to other prime territories.

A kind of Renaissance man of oncology, arts and sciences – among other things – and just 48 years old, God only knows where Mukherjee is headed next with the Midas touch he possesses. He had me seeing red, at least temporarily.

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