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“Receiving a diagnosis of
cancer can be very earth
shattering. It stops your
heart, it stops time, and
it forces you to evaluate
your life and become
intimate with the concept
of mortality.”
These are the words of Dr.
Meighan Valero, a Naturopathic
Oncologist who has experienced
the effects of Cancer in both a
personal and professional way.
By Daniela Goode
At the age of 18, she lost her own
mother to a painful battle with
stomach cancer. The experience
caused her to develop an
intimate familiarity with the level
of fear and panic that comes
with a diagnosis of cancer.
She describes her mother’s
experience with cancer as very
brief, and filled with pain and
suffering. Having initially been
misdiagnosed by doctors of