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Posts by Bill Thach

Patient, Survivor, Metastatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

Pack Over Lone Wolf: Community, Words, and Miles Through Cancer

by Bill Thach May 25, 2026

When I was diagnosed with neuroendocrine carcinoma at 33, I thought “getting through” meant surviving treatment cycles and scan days. I imagined a finish line: make it through this surgery, this chemo, this radiation, this clinical trial, and then life would return to something like normal.

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Finding My Pack: How Cancer Taught Me the True Meaning of Brotherhood

by Bill Thach April 6, 2026

Through my cancer diagnosis, I never truly understood the transformative power of connecting with another survivor. I had read the bold-faced words: community, compassion, empathy again and again in pamphlets, online articles, and support brochures, but they were just concepts that felt far removed from my own reality.

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