Cancer patients often talk about the right and wrong things to say to someone with the disease. Well-meaning friends and family members might describe cancer patients as upbeat, strong and ready for battle, but patients themselves are often annoyed by the metaphor.
A few years ago, Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University whose “Last Lecture” became a best-selling book before he died of pancreatic cancer, joked that he wanted to write about the “stupid stuff people say to you when you have cancer.” Read the rest of this entry »
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