Share Your Story: Marci Cox

Marci Greenberg Cox is the author of Mommy Has a Boo-Boo: Explaining Breast Cancer to Children. In 2018, she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer, had a double mastectomy with no reconstruction, and is now cancer-free.

02:02: Maybe it's just something because I overdid a weight.
04:40: She gets on the phone, and you hear those words, I am so sorry you have cancer.
06:37: I mean as soon as I found out, I was on the phone with doctors.
08:58: She goes it's because I smoked.
10:13: I had that choice of a lumpectomy versus a double mastectomy.
12:08: It was a 13-hour surgery.
14:14: I'm done because I said no more surgeries.
17:40: I'm very happy with my decision because I have a whole new wardrobe.
20:20: Did you have to have any other treatment?
22:43: It's going to put me into menopause.
24:51: I'm on that pill for 10 years.
26:58: What was your worst moment during all of this?
29:34: That was a game-changer for me because I didn't get sick after that.
30:25: What was your best moment out of all of this?
33:10: If you could only do one thing to improve health care in the U.S., what would it be and why?
35:44: Are you ready for the Thriver Rapid Fire questions?
37:13: Aside from Cancer U, what is a resource you would recommend for cancer patients and caregivers?
39:45: You've got to have those discussions because those kids are so intuitive.
42:06: It's all this practical stuff that you learn.

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