My patients became my 'doctors' when I was diagnosed with cancer

As a family physician, Dr. Nhung N. Tran-Davies had been right next to her patients' tough moments. When she was diagnosed with cancer, her patients surprised her by showing up for her.

Life's journey is, indeed, always full of surprises and curveballs. The curveball I was not expecting, even in my worst nightmare, was being diagnosed in late October with Stage 4 colorectal cancer when I was a couple months short of my 50th birthday. My downfall was thinking that I was invincible. I am a vegetarian of healthy weight who doesn't smoke or drink. Seeing my mom at 88 still going strong and me not being of the age to evenTran-Davies says her downfall was thinking that she was invincible, being that she is a vegetarian of healthy weight and doesn't smoke or drink.

I was devastated, of course, when an urgent colonoscopy and further imaging confirmed it was Stage 4 colorectal cancer that had spread to the liver. Basically, the prognosis for Stage 4 isn't great, with statistics quoting a five-year survival rate of about Tran-Davies says she was able to get through surgery and is now tolerating chemo better than expected.

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