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Many people use the phrase CPTSD to stand for PTSD from complex trauma. To me, C-PTSD means cancer and PTSD. I have cancer and I’m a trauma survivor. I’m a survivor with cancer but not yet a cancer survivor. Will I be a survivor squared?

Dear Cissy, Kind of stunned right now and not sure what to say...but you are in my thoughts and prayers....and your fighting spirit will help you through this...keep questioning and challenging the 'experts', and REST to allow for healing. The connection of trauma and abuse to cancer is huge...it saddens and sickens me that most of the medical world still does not address this simple fact. Take care, Michael

Cissy, your experience sounds truly harrowing, thanks in part to apparently incompetent "healthcare" providers. I keep thinking back to when Gilda Radner was finally diagnosed with ovarian cancer, there was a terrible uproar because despite her unrelenting symptoms it had taken an inordinate amount of time to get that diagnosis. That was 30 years ago, and yet doctors are still scratching their heads for months when middle-aged women report pelvic pain? This is maddening. And unconscionable.