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Waiting Games

Hidden Brain

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Is There Any Silver Lining in Cancer?

People who are able to find some sort of silver lining, some kind of benefit in something, you know, bad that happens to them, a loss or a trama, they to be better off. To test this, kate and her team asked the group of women waiting on byopse results if they could see any kind of silver lining in finding out that they would require treatment. And what we found is that almost seventy five per cent of our sample said yes they could. So again, be optimistic at the front end of the waiting period and pessimistic as you get close to the moment of truth.

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