在美国，每年大约有5000人被诊断出患有肛门癌，通常用放射疗法进行治疗。
虽然放射疗法可以有效地治疗癌症，但它往往会产生副作用，包括改变患者的性健康。这对女性来说尤其如此。但许多肛门癌患者不知道放疗可能是这些变化的原因，或者他们太尴尬了……
When my daughter Aaliyah was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in November 2016 at age 9, I was shattered, vacillating hourly between two nearly unspeakable fears: the fear that she would not survive, and the fear that during the last weeks or months of her life, she would suffer relentlessly.
突然间，我被推进了一个我几乎认不出来的生活，挣扎着在我之前的妈妈们一直向我保证最终会发生的事情中前行……
