Personal Narrative: The Potential Spread Of Cancer Cells

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It was now a few weeks after the surgery, which I thought was the answer to our prayers. Though, the doctors wanted to now start my father on six months of Chemotherapy and Radiation. You can imagine our confusion… We thought once the cancerous tumor was removed from my father’s pancreas that everything was going to be fine. The doctors told us, that they wanted to be sure there weren’t any other traces of the cancer anywhere else. So, to prevent any potential spreading of the cancer cells they insisted that my father go through with the treatments. Now, the next big hurdle was telling my father the actual truth of what was really going on…

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