PSYCH 149: Psycho-Oncology
and the end of life.
Medlock Holmes enters The House of Cancer, expecting to investigate a disease of abnormal cells.
But he quickly discovers that cancer never occupies only one room.
In the laboratory, cells divide uncontrollably. In the adjoining rooms, entirely different processes are unfolding: a newly diagnosed patient sits stunned after hearing the word cancer; another cannot sleep before a surveillance scan; another is depressed during chemotherapy; a survivor is terrified that every new pain means recurrence; a parent tries to explain illness to a child; and, in the final room, a…
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