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"A few days ago I spoke with a newly diagnosed CML patient who is wondering when and how she should break the news to the friends she doesn&amp;#x27;t see/talk to on a daily basis. That&amp;#x27;s a tough one. Having cancer is not a secret for her, but she&amp;#x27;s not exactly looking forward to making several dozen phone calls and dropping the bomb...then explaining all the medical mumbo jumbo that she&amp;#x27;s not even sure she understands, and reliving the awful diagnosis experience a million times. But she wants them to know.... I told her to write an e-mail. That&amp;#x27;s what I did. &amp;quot;Are you all sitting down?&amp;quot; it began. I was able to tell the diagnosis story and put all the info about my treatment plan and prognosis into in a concise, easy-to-understand paragraph. I even added some humor so people knew I was OK. Then, of course, my friends wrote back or called and we went from there. For me the mass e-mail was the most efficient. I just didn&amp;#x27;t want to not have people hear it from me and feel hurt or, worse, start believing whatever exaggerated story was going through the grapevine (at one point people were saying I was dying....). To those of you with cancer experience, how did you get the word out? And how have you spread news about other not-so-happy things? Any tips? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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