Black Breasties: Stop Calling Breast Cancer A Fight

When you’re diagnosed with cancer, it can feel like you’re suddenly thrown into a fight. The mental toll of the cancer fight weighs heavy, and you soon decide to choose your own words. When you envision a fight, you see two gladiators with swords drawn or two people with their fists bared, not your head over a toilet throwing up for the fifth time in a day. You don’t picture yourself bawling like an infant on the bathroom floor or screaming at night because the pain in your bones feels like it’s crushing you alive. So why do people say cancer is a fight? Why do you often hear that cancer treatment is your life’s fight? Yes, the treatments are meant to keep you alive, but what if they don’t? What if you sit in that chemotherapy chair week after week and, by no fault of your own, it’s just not enough? Why do we call this a fight? Finding Out About The Fight How could this happen to me? This is one of the very first thoughts many cancer patients have when they are first diagnosed. You think about how much you stay physically active, eat healthy, and get...