Winning Over Cancer
May 21st, 2008
Carter White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan died yesterday. He wrote about his battle with cancer for The Post’s Outlook section on Jan. 26, 1986.
I am lying in my hospital bed in Atlanta. I have been here for five days, have had a surgical biopsy and every test in the book, and now it all comes down to a man in a laboratory somewhere looking at my tissue through a microscope, deciding what kind of cancer I have and whether I will live or die.