The experience of cancer does not make sense in the usual ways.
Cancer does unpredictable things to the body and to the lives that it affects.
Because nearly everything about cancer is unexpected, people need to think about life with cancer in ways that are flexible and nonlinear. But we're seldom taught or encouraged to think this way and as a result, people often talk about cancer in ways that are harmful. CancerShock offers a place for people to create flexible and nonlinear approaches to cancer. It invites you to help build new ways to talk about and live with cancer. Bad meanings include those from other people or from society that don't fit the person with cancer, causing them to pretend they are who they aren't or forcing them to make decisions based on other people's expectations or values.