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Posts by Annamaria Scaccia

Survivor, Stage 1 Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma and Stage 1 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

The Unspoken Guilt of Living

by Annamaria Scaccia September 22, 2025

Twice.

I’ve survived cancer twice.

It’s a statement that still feels unreal—unreal and grotesque.

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Am I Human?

by Annamaria Scaccia July 16, 2025

They no longer treat me like
I am human.

A human has flaws.
A human can be weak.
But I… I am their warrior—
their cancer warrior.

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Energy is a Fickle Thing

by Annamaria Scaccia June 9, 2025

In 2023, life threw me another curveball—a second cancer diagnosis, this time papillary thyroid carcinoma, two and a half years after surviving kidney cancer.

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