Judith Lucy's cancer journey will reveal resilience she didn't know she had

Key points

• Comedian Judith Lucy has begun her cancer journey, which she described in a post on Tuesday. Writing as a fellow patient, ABC journalist Annie White describes the many decisions, tests and treatments that follow a diagnosis.
• She recounts her own breast cancer experience, including a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and years of hormone therapy.
• She says the ongoing fear, fatigue and loneliness are hard to share with others, and urges readers to get their breasts checked.