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“I’ll say I’m having trouble walking and people are like, ‘Why?’” she said. When she tries to explain this to her peers, though, they’re confused.

Like Hazel – and countless other cancer survivors – Cisz has to contend with treatment side effects, in particular neuropathy, a chemo-related condition that causes pain, numbness and tingling in her hands and feet. Cancer is one of the hardest things you have to go through and nobody else in my high school had ever had it.” They don’t know what you’re going through, how you’re feeling, the emotions you’re having. “It’s difficult to talk about with my friends. “I find it very, very hard to find people who can relate,” said Cisz, who’s never attended an in-person support group but has connected with a few survivors via the Facebook page, Cancer Fighters. Green was particularly good at capturing the isolation many teen cancer patients feel, she said. “Especially for the author not having cancer. The 20-year-old, now majoring in business at Central Connecticut State University, read TFIOS (as it’s known by Green’s fans) in a single day and despite what some survivors might find to be a less than happy ending, loved the book. Along with a delayed diagnosis and an exhausting battery of tests, Cisz has gone through brain surgery, radiation and is currently five months into a year-long regimen of chemotherapy. ‘I find it very, very hard to find people who can relate’Īllison Cisz was diagnosed with brain cancer during her senior year of high school after an MRI revealed an astrocytoma on her brain stem (the tumor was pressing against her nausea pathway, causing her to “throw up every single day for about a year”).