Posted in LIFE BEYOND CANCER

Hope can be a major tool of empowerment and an element for sustaining life and the will to live. We hope for better times. We hope for remission. We hope to prolong life by averting death through medical treatment and supportive care. Or, if disease progresses, we hope to control pain, side effects, and suffering.  We hope for treatments that can cure or palliate and make the disease stable. The Oxford Dictionary defines hope as “to entertain expectations of something desired.&rdq...