You may have heard it before. 

“At least it’s the good kind of cancer.” 

It’s a phrase that sometimes shows up in the first conversations with doctors, or with friends and family—when patients are often searching for some sort of understanding. 

But for many people living with blood cancer, those words don’t land the way they're intended. Because there isn’t a “good” kind. 

There’s only the reality of what it asks of a person—the uncertainty, the disruption, the weight carried day to day.

We asked a few young adult patients to share what that phrase feels like to them. Not to correct or call out—but to help all of us understand a little more deeply what it means to live through a diagnosis. 

This part of cancer isn’t always visible... but it matters just as much. And when we understand it, we show up differently for the people we love. 

Thank you for being someone who shows up through all of it.