There was endometrial tissue outside of where it belonged, and the cancer developed from that.
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Tumours can come out of nowhere.
In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.
Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.
I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.
Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.
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