Thank you so much for your various warm-hearted informative and helpful messages and useful tips how to cope with patients much better!

I’m so pleased to hear your kind comment or tips saying, “One thing we can take charge of is being a good friend to someone when you they have cancer.”
I think patients tend to feel isolated and depressed naturally.
So it’d be so grateful to be considered by someone reading their notes, watching smiley faces, letting friends listen to patients’ feelings and daily life etc.

Now, I’m a cancer survivor.
I was first diagnosed with advanced colon cancer at the age of 41 in 1999.
I had experienced metastasis to liver and right lung and ended up chemotherapy in April 2007.

Happy to say, I’ll be celebrating my 20th anniversary this coming October, of course, I have no idea what’s will happen to my body, though.
Once I was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, my primary doctor explained to me and my family members after the operation that my cancer condition was so serious and had a high chance of recurrence or metastasis and added “ Enjoy your life!’

Keep up the good work.
I’m truly proud of you, all!

Best regards,

Taka from Japan