Ben B. Brave

I was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer at 28 with no family history. This blog explores aspects of bot-bot cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

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May 7, 2015

Fear and alternative medicine

Soon after my cancer diagnosis I told my surgeon that I was uncomfortable about the upcoming surgery and did not want him to remove all my c...

January 27, 2015

Next steps

I start medical school next week and my stethoscope arrived two Tuesdays ago. I bought it online. I never thought that one day I would ...

August 16, 2014

Three years

The worst thing about surviving cancer is not the scars , fuzzy fingers and feet, violent colon or fear that cancer will return . No, the w...

July 29, 2013

Two years

There is only one thing I like more than sipping champagne, and that’s sipping champagne while wearing a bow tie. But a couple of weeks ag...

December 27, 2012

Death by Facebook

Having cancer a couple of decades ago, I can only assume, must have been a private affair. Not so today. Cancer is everywhere; it has infilt...

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