I didn't have this experience when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in February; I got a talk about the possibility of having cancer and was given some do

I didn't have this experience when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in February; I got a talk about the possibility of having cancer and was given some documents on lymphoma by the ER physician before I got a biopsy, CT, or even saw an oncologist. I think it went a long way toward softening the blow of getting an "official" diagnosis after pathology. My post-diagnosis experience with my oncologists has been anything but distant, but I spent four weeks in the hospital seeing them daily before I started chemotherapy, so that could be a factor.