”Mom’s just tired. I was in this daze of denial.” A teenager

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”Mom’s just tired. I was in this daze of denial.” A teenager grapples with her mother’s diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma.

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In this month’s episode of On Rare, David Rintell speaks with Alex, 18-year-old whose mother is living with cholangiocarcinoma. It’s a moving conversation about a teenager facing the challenges of everyday life while also handling the possibility of life without her mother. We hear what it is like for this young woman to watch her mother struggle to receive a diagnosis, finally learn she has cholangiocarcinoma, and seek treatment options.

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