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When I was in my 20s, people referred to cancer as the ¡°Big C.¡± Back then, there weren¡¯t many treatment options, and the prognosis wasn¡¯t good. ?But my recent stage IV kidney cancer diagnosis has shown me how far medicine has come over the last five decades.

In March 2015, I developed a persistent dry cough. My family doctor spent five months trying to cure it. After nothing worked, he ordered a chest X-ray. It showed a mass...