It's been more than seven years, so Benjamin Stein-Lobovits is now able to crack dad jokes about the inoperable brain cancer diagnosis he received, just before his 32nd birthday.

"I like to say that I turned 30-tumor," he says.

Ba-dum-tssh.

But, at the time, the news was devastating; Stein-Lobovits spent many months sobbing on the couch, immobilized by loss and fear.

"You feel so beat up and powerless," says Stein-Lobovits, who quit his job as a Silicon Valley programmer, having lost his balance and ability to type quickly. "It's such a shock to your ego, your sense of being as a man," he explains.

He didn't want to be seen in this emotionally vulnerable state by other people, though he was actually starved for camaraderie and comfort.

Coping with cancer is rarely easy for anyone, bu

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