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at what point are they killing the tumor, and at what point are they killing you?

life-threatening at what point are they killing the tumor, and at what point are they killing you? Shobha Dasari Mar 06, 2026 13 5 3 Share Michael had cancer. The life-threatening kind (he corrected me when I called it terminal). The distinction mattered to him. I understood. He called cancer an ironic disease. It is. It’s a natural process – cell growth, how your body heals itself – going into overdrive and destroying you. Survival instincts that become self-destructive. Michael had stopped chemo. It was barbaric, he said. I found that to be interesting. Barbaric is the word I use in the priv

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