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This morning the Chronicle ran a front page story<\/a> about a 23 year-old woman named Alicia, a copy editor at the Chronicle who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s the first in a seven-part series. My thoughts go out to her. <\/p>\n

I came into The Chronicle building early, at 8 a.m., because it was a Wednesday, deadline day for my department, the Friday section. It was almost 10 o’clock when I grabbed a muffin and some yogurt from the coffee shop downstairs.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t had time to take a bite when the phone rang.
\nFor once, I didn’t look at the number. I just assumed it was someone calling me back about a question I had with a story. On deadline, of course.<\/p>\n

“Chronicle. This is Alicia.”
\n“Hi, Alicia, this is Dr. Feldman.”
\nGary Feldman is my primary care doctor. I wondered why he was calling. Bad news didn’t even occur to me. I was too busy for bad news. And bad news doesn’t come when you’re at work.<\/p>\n

“Oh, hi, Dr. Feldman, how are you?.”
\n“I’m fine, I’m fine. …Listen, we just got your pathology report back from Stanford from your breast biopsy. They’re calling it alveolar soft part sarcoma.”<\/p>\n

I froze. I had no idea what that meant. I didn’t even know how to spell it. Things you can’t begin to spell are never good.<\/p>\n

Dr. Feldman was still talking, but I couldn’t understand anything, until I heard him say, “… so it’s cause for concern.”<\/p>\n

“Wait, wait, hold on. I’m not any kind of medical person, so you’re going to have to explain. We’re talking about cancer, right? Sarcoma is a kind of cancer?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, that’s right.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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