As a result, Delaney-Smith's odds at achieving a full recovery are very good. The worst part of her battle is now over, and she has been able to focus her efforts mainly on the upcoming season, during which Delaney-Smith will seek her seventh career Ivy League title.
A Public Service
Though Delaney-Smith had originally worried that losing her hair would draw added attention to her and her condition, she was ultimately surprised by how well she was able to hide it.
"I got a good wig, and lots of people didn't know because it looked just like my hair," she said.
That unrealized fear was just one of many of Delaney-Smith's initial preconceptions about cancer that were dissolved in time.
"I had this perception of breast cancer that all people do when you don't know about it: bald, sick, dying, thin, frail," Delaney-Smith said. "I had that picture of that's what was going to happen to me."
As Delaney-Smith has come to learn, the key to reducing anxieties caused by the disease is to educate yourself.
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