Kathryn Gurtland is a social worker and a therapist. She not only has learned much about cancer over the time she has been working in her job, but has had two deaths in the family due to cancer. Judi, her older sister found that she had melanoma and died within eight months. Kathryn’s younger sister, Peggy, got lung cancer and died 14 months later. They both died in their mid forty’s. One thing Kathryn says patients feel like they have been “thrown into foreign waters with no map, compass or directions in their native language.” The three rules included are: “Cancer is a diagnosis not an emergency,”"Make sure your doctor and others involved in your care get to know the person behind the diagnosis,” and “Ask for what you need when you need it.
This article is developed by process analysis. It is giving instructions on how to be a better person with cancer. It also tells you, as a person who knows someone with cancer, how to treat them better. You should treat any person with cancer, the same as you would any other person you interact with. They don’t like to be treated any differently. Keep treating every one you know with the same respect as always, even if they have cancer.
