Julie McCrossin: What a bond I feel with people who have been through the cancer challenge of Head and Neck Cancer

Julie McCrossin posted the following on LinkedIn:

“Early to breakfast at our hotel in Nomad New York. A quiet lobby area with a continental breakfast. Self-serve or people to help. Still sleep disrupted but deeply relaxed. We’re meeting up later this morning with a fellow survivor of a Head and Neck Cancer, Kathleen, and her friend Joy.

What a bond I feel with people who have been through the brutal cancer challenge of Head and Neck Cancer. I hesitate to write ‘brutal’ because I don’t want to distress or frighten someone receiving treatment now, or about to receive treatment. Then I think, it is brutal. But with the support of a Multidisciplinary Cancer Team, and hopefully family and friends, we can survive and, in time, thrive within whatever ‘new normal’ life delivers us.

Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed. A Memoir.”

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Julie McCrossin, a former broadcaster with ABC Radio National, ABC TV, and Network Ten, is now a freelance journalist, broadcaster, and podcaster.

After being treated for stage four throat cancer in 2013, she became an Ambassador for Targeting Cancer and TROG Cancer Research. Julie hosts podcast series for Cancer Council NSW and Head & Neck Cancer Australia, focusing on cancer-related topics.