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It felt like someone was stabbing me in the stomach.At the time, there were plenty of halfway reasonable explanations why my stomach might be hurting. Maybe it’s a cold. Maybe I have the flu. Maybe this is just me getting used to college food. Or maybe I just got punched…

When Jennifer Goldsack woke up after emergency surgery last Christmas, she was waiting to hear she had a stress ulcer. Maybe appendicitis. But not this.The surgeon had news that made no sense to her, as a 42-year-old CEO and former athlete: late-stage cancer.Goldsack had always prided herself on being able…