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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.