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Heed These Words
Fact: The sun’s ultraviolet rays are a CARCINOGEN.
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My Colon Cancer
One reason Frank is still alive many years later is that he got his “routine” colonoscopy at age 50…
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My Lynch Syndrome
If you discover that you or a loved one has Lynch Syndrome, don’t freak out. Such knowledge—as upsetting as it—is power…
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My Skin Cancers
A window into the horrors of skin cancer from a “frequent flyer” at the dermatology clinic who knows a bit about Squamous Cell Skin Cancer, Sebaceous Carcinoma, and Melanoma…
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Knowledge is Power
Allow me to close the series out with some empowering takeaways that put a Lynch Syndrome diagnosis in the proper perspective…
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Telling Your Children
Because I don’t have children, I’ve never been burdened with deciding if, when, and how to tell them that I have the Lynch mutation…
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Having Children
I don’t have children–by choice–a decision, by the way, that has nothing to do with my Lynch Syndrome diagnosis.
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Privacy Issues
I was already retired and fully vested in my health insurance program when I learned I had Lynch Syndrome.
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Surveillance
Since 2012, I have been under surveillance for the long list of possible Lynch Syndrome and Muir-Torre Syndrome cancers…
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Perspective
At first, I was devastated by the Lynch Syndrome diagnosis…