Susan Tifft, 59; journalist wrote blog about her illness

With wit as sharp as the scalpels she dreaded, Susan Tifft kept a blog about engaging fully in life after being diagnosed with cancer. So informed and incisive were the entries that a doctor suggested, only half in jest, that she could write “Oncology for Dummies.’’ (Full article: 1198 words)

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