5 Things You Can Feel When Someone You Love Has Cancer

There’s a lot, it turns out.

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As a woman in my mid-twenties, who hadn’t dealt with any major family deaths or illnesses, my mother’s breast cancer diagnosis knocked the wind out of me.

In November 2022, a nagging discomfort in her breast led my mother to finally schedule a mammogram she’d been putting off for years, due to not…