MY BOOK: ROADS TO MEANING AND RESILIENCE WITH CANCER
No one is immune from cancer, this nasty disease. Everyone could get it! The forty people, whose stories are in the book I wrote, are making meaning and building resilience while living with incurable cancers. I am one of the forty people. I interviewed thirty-nine people with lung cancer, and in this book, I share aspects of our stories. We are fortunate to be alive at a time when science has made it possible to survive with advanced lung cancer for more than a few months. I wrote this book to explore answers to our existential struggles. I also wrote it to open space for others to advance the conversations around their existential inquiries. By writing this, I hoped that patients, caregivers, and health care providers could find insights about patient experiences. I hope this work will help develop language to explain our struggles as cancer patients so that others can understand us better, and with that, also they better understand themselves. It is important here to not