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Not Having Cancer Is Expensive

Not Having Cancer Is Expensive

It took three months and a lot of money to find out I didn't have cancer. I was lucky. A lot of people aren't.

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Jan 05, 2022
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by Justin Rosario

For the last three months, I have been living under the specter of cancer. After receiving a possible diagnosis of Muir-Torre/Lynch syndrome, a genetic disorder that greatly increases my chances of developing cancer, it has been a constant source of stress and fear. I only briefly touched on all of this when I wrote about all of the ug…

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