Me, My Cancer and the Vaccine Against My Cancer

This is literally the first time I have written about this publicly, and I am doing so with a considerable knot in my stomach and no small amount of anxiety. As if putting it into words might summon it, wake it up, provoke it… bring it back. And then I read the news from Moderna and Merck about the first positive Phase III trial result for an mRNA cancer therapy. And for my cancer, of all cancers: skin cancer — melanoma.