How Can the Impact of Cancer Create Positive Change?

When something is impactful, we say that it alters us, touches us, changes us. We say that it has had a great influence on our lives. This, too, is true of my experience. Although I had been caring for others as an oncology nurse for several years, my own diagnosis was a revelation. I was suddenly privy to the disorientation of being reduced to another medical record number on a schedule, another tumor board agenda item, another port to poke.