Young People with Cancer Can't Afford to Lose Their Jobs (opens in new tab)

The postoperative pathology report was ready. Xiao Ou stood in the hospital lobby. The surgery had removed one and a quarter of her breasts. Bandages wrapped her upper body tight. With the only hand she could move — her right — she tapped open the report on her phone. Her heart was racing. The report read: 13 metastatic lymph nodes, stage IIIC. Locally advanced breast cancer. At 26, Xiao Ou had never imagined she would be diagnosed with breast cancer so young. She is a young teacher. What wor...