When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
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