Good advice from cancer survivor Mary Jane Palmer:

During this past school year, Palmer taught dual credit math and physics at Warsaw High School for Carl Sandburg College; she taught physics and tutored at Carthage High School; and she taught an evening physics class at Carl Sandburg College Carthage Branch Campus.

In June, before this grueling schedule began, she discovered a lump in her breast.

...Her advice to someone who gets a cancer diagnosis? "Call somebody." Talk to people who have been through it. Learn all you can.

Palmer has learned much on the internet, and from her students and friends at school.

“I learned the power of positive thought and prayer. That has definitely helped. I can tell it. I thank everybody."