He’s not named it Henry yet, preferring to speak of it as “the alien”, but Christopher Hitchens on his cancer is worth your time and, perhaps, that of anyone you know with any of those diseases:
Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.
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