‘My body feels like it is dying from the drugs that are meant to save me’: life as a cancer patient

When Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive breast cancer, she was confronted with a cure so poisonous that her body’s fluids became toxic to other people and corrosive to her body’s own tissues.

Author: Anne Boyer
Source: The Guardian
Published: Sep 26, 2019
Length: 18 minutes (4,578 words)

What Cancer Takes Away

As she goes through treatment for breast cancer, Anne Boyer considers what being sick has cost her — physically, financially and emotionally — along with the societal and environmental costs of high-priced treatments.

Author: Anne Boyer
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 8, 2019
Length: 19 minutes (4,866 words)