Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Cancer. It's a scary

thought that we may get it someday and yet up to 50% of people can get cancer and it is one of the leading

causes of death in the world.

But for us as listeners, what do we do if we get diagnosed with cancer or someone that we love gets

diagnosed with cancer? Well one of our listeners from Kentucky, Lindsay,

asked this very question. She writes, Dr. Puff, I've been thinking about cancer more since we have a neighbor who's

fighting it right now, a 35 year old with breast cancer. Lord have mercy.

Have you done a podcast on what you would do if you were diagnosed with cancer?

I've been thinking about what I would do if I found myself with that diagnosis.

I'm asking questions like this, what would I change or do differently? What would stay the same? How

would I choose to combat the cancer, i.e. alternative methods, chemo, radiation, etc. My friend said to me that fighting cancer is 50% mental. I

imagine you would have a lot to say about that. Also, how do you integrate taking care of

your spirit, your attitude, and your soul while you're taking care

of your body.

Thank you for considering these thoughts, Beths, Lindsay.

Although I have made reference to getting cancer and other podcasts. I've never done a

podcast on specifically getting cancer and how to deal with that. So that's what

we're going to do today. What if we go to the doctor next week and he or she

tells us we've been diagnosed with cancer or

someone that we love like our spouse or children have cancer. What do we do?

Well let's start with the specifics. First, there's two ways we may discover that we have cancer.

One is we begin to hurt our body aches,

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