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PART ONE ‘What’s going to happen to me next?’
Оглавление—A step-by-step guide
Beginning at the beginning: what is cancer anyway?
Curiously enough, cancer is not a disease.
Everyone uses the word as if it represents one disease, in the same way we refer to diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or Alzheimer’s as diseases. But cancer is not a single disease at all—it is a process. It is a process by which many different diseases—the cancers—are created. And that fact, as you will see, changes everything.
