My diagnosis of breast cancer was not the hardest part. Far more difficult to cope with were the preceding two weeks, after the radiologist suggested the dark patch she could see on the ultrasound was ‘worrying’ and needed a biopsy.
My heart did a cold plunge to the floor. What kind of ‘worrying’, I wondered, as I scrutinised her poker face for clues.
As any of the one in seven women who receive a breast cancer diagnosis will testify, ‘worrying’ (see also ‘concerning’ or ‘suspicious’) covers a wide spectrum of outcomes.
During the fortnight between my biopsy and the in-person results, that single word
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