Unflappable

Unflappable

Wildfires

And other cancer metaphors

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Jonathan A. Hutton
Oct 21, 2026

Living with chronically recurrent, rare, and incurable cancer has its challenges. Among them: explaining how this form of disease differs from what most people associate with cancer. The narrative that’s familiar (because it’s also the most common) goes a little something like this:

  • A diagnosis is made

  • Intervention occurs (be it surgery, chemo, radiation,…

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