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Posts by Jess Isomoto

Survivor, Stage 3 Breast Cancer

Silenced by the Language of Cancer

by Jess Isomoto October 10, 2024

As a cancer patient, you learn a whole new language. Well, it’s regional: I learned the breast cancer dialect; you may be fluent in lymphoma. But we all learn it—no choice, total immersion, keep up or die. 75 visits to the hospital in one year is one heck of a Duolingo streak.

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Dear Cancer: I Will Never Say Thank You

by Jess Isomoto July 16, 2024

Dear Cancer,

If I tell you this, promise not to tell anyone else, because I can barely bring myself to write it, and I will never say this out loud.

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