He pointed me to a case described by a physician whose patient was a man in his mid-50s, whose prostate cancer had spread. This is serious. What it means is that we both have work to do. He described various therapies, including the possibility of surgery. You must accept the fact, first of all that the words cancer and termination are not synonymous.
People tend to become psychological cripples the moment they hear the word cancer.
And let me say that there has been substantial progress since this article was written twenty years ago. So are your hopes and affirmative expectations. I just want to assure you that if we work together, as a team we have a good chance. And in fact in this case the team won, the outcome was successful. Those patients who had a fighting spirit and wouldn t accept a negative verdict were far more likely to improve than were those who responded with stoic acceptance of feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.