Cecile, C’est la Vie!
Cecile Guidote-Alvarez’s unforgiving, irreverent take on cancerhood
By Ces Rodriguez

     “Discombobulate”—to throw into a state of confusion, according to the American Heritage Dictionary—is Cecile Guidote-Alvarez’s favorite word to describe how her family reacted when they learned that ten years after she had a benign tumor removed from her left breast in 1992, a deadlier lump had decided to lodge in her other breast.

Wiser now and undefeated, Cecile writes off cancer from her schedule, showing no signs of slowing down, doing work and worthy advocacies.

     “I discombobulated their lives!” Alvarez recounts, even if she herself has made discombobulation her default state all her life—with cancer and without.

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