cancer Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/cancer/ Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:46:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing as Escape: Bittersweet Heartache and Cancer https://booksbywomen.org/writing-as-escape-bittersweet-heartache-and-cancer-by-temeka-williams/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-as-escape-bittersweet-heartache-and-cancer-by-temeka-williams/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:54:23 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=8448 In 2009 I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. This cancer was known as “female teratoma,” and it meant that I basically had testicular cancer in the ovary. I got the cancer from my dad. It skipped a generation and was passed down to me from my grandmother, who passed away in 1989, […]

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