Category: Cancer Navigation
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The Fear Beneath the Fear: What Mortality Anxiety Is Actually Telling You
The question that surfaces once the searching stops isn’t one more information can answer. Here’s what fear during a serious diagnosis is actually for, and how to carry it without letting it make the decisions.
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The Great Erasure: How a Serious Diagnosis Quietly Replaces Who You Are
A serious diagnosis doesn’t take your identity all at once — it takes it one reasonable accommodation at a time, until the patient role has quietly replaced everyone else you used to be. Here’s why that erosion is a clinical problem, not just an emotional one.
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The Second Diagnosis: What Nobody Tells You About Cancer and Information Overload
A cancer diagnosis is really two diagnoses. The first is biological, delivered by a doctor. The second is informational, and it begins the moment you’re alone with a phone. Here’s why intelligence alone doesn’t solve it, and what actually does.
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The Emotional Side of a Cancer Diagnosis: What Nobody Prepares You For, and What Actually Helps
There’s a particular silence that follows a cancer diagnosis — not in the exam room, but after, when you’re alone with what you just heard. Most of what’s written about cancer is written about treatment and decisions. This is written about the part that comes before all of that.
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The Certainty Trap: Why Confident Answers Feel More Trustworthy (And Usually Aren’t)
A careful physician says ‘the evidence suggests.’ A confident voice online says ‘this is what works.’ The second one feels more trustworthy. It usually isn’t. Here’s why confidence and competence aren’t the same thing — especially in genuinely complex situations.
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The Evidence Ladder: Why Smart People Get Fooled by Cancer Misinformation
Two hours into a midnight search, you’re not closer to an answer. You’re further from one. Here’s why intelligence alone doesn’t protect against misinformation — and a ladder to climb instead of a flood to swim through.
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The Biology of the 3 A.M. Search: Why You Can’t Stop Researching After a Diagnosis
The urge to keep searching after a serious diagnosis isn’t a character flaw — it’s biology. Here’s what’s actually happening in your brain in those first days, and why understanding it matters more than fighting it.
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Navigating Cancer Between Hope and Hype: Finding Clarity, Making Better Decisions, and Living Well Amid Uncertainty — Why the Crisis Isn’t Information, It’s Navigation
Nearly two million Americans received a cancer diagnosis in 2025. The crisis they face is not a shortage of information — it is the absence of a framework for navigating it. After two years of research, writing, and testing every idea against lived experience, my new book addresses exactly that gap.