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Adrian Pogacian
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What About Them, the Caregivers?
“The anticipatory fear that I had became reality when the doctor said that my 6-year-old son must undergo chemotherapy…the rest of the explanation I didn’t hear due to the shock that I had, even though I am a radiology nurse…
Can Healing and Growth Coexist? Post-Traumatic Transformation in Cancer Patients
When Ana, a confident assistant manager at a multinational corporation, walked into my counseling office, she was no longer the poised professional her colleagues knew. “I was never meant to be a mother,” she whispered, eyes shadowed by uncertainty and…
(Re)Thinking Psycho-oncology in a world out of balance: What I learned after a year of interviews
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy" Albert Camus Why me? This is probably the present-day question of every patient with cancer! One of the consequences of our chaotic reality is cancer, which belongs to that class of diseases that impacts the…