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The Fear of Bad News Wears on Cancer Survivors
This is of course not news to any of us that deal with it but it is interesting that it is finally being written about.
The Fear of Bad News Wears on Cancer Survivors
Anticipating tests can make life a rollercoaster.
“In the back of your mind, it’s always there that the other shoe is going to drop, and that becomes more active in the days before that CAT scan until I hear what happened,” said Rothman, who is 61 and lives in the Northeast. She gets CAT scans every other month to monitor her cancer.
“I always think the worst,” she said.
Rothman suffers from what cancer patients call “scanxiety,” the fear that punctuates their lives as “routine” tests approach.
Cynthia Kinsella
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