The Week of the Cancer Diagnosis is a poem written by Marilyn Bushman-Carlto. This poem was a finalist in the 2025 BYU Studies Poetry Contest. Bushman-Carlto tries to come to terms with being diagnosed with breast cancer and begins to see the world with new eyes.


Published in BYU Studies 65 no. 1 in 2026.


Read the full poem here.

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