At the age of 32, Arjun Sen was never inside the hospital. But this time, it was not for a regular check-up. It was cancer.

One day, during a meeting, Sen started throwing blood and immediately rushed to the emergency chamber, where he found that his world turned into a momeman, diagnosed with laryngial cancer, as well as with early signs of colorectal cancer.

Larringial cancer develops in larynx in a person’s voice box. When the tumor develops, it changes a person’s voice, causing trouble in breathing and swallowing between other symptoms. It is a type of head and neck cancer, a highly prevalent cancer that diagnoses in most Indian men.

Zenmango founder and CEO writer and Mind Architect, Arjun Sen, writer and Mind Architect, Arjun Sen said, “The moment the restband was placed on me and I was sitting in a wheelchair, I lost all the control in my life.”

In those early days, the diagnosis of the disease was severe.

“When my doctors first told me about the severity of their diagnosis, they used the reference of 100 days to create only one urgency that I should start my treatment as soon as possible, I did not know how to work and went into a refusal and shut-down mode. I really closed myself in my house and hid from the world,” said Sen said.

It was not until his young daughter asked him three simple but piercing questions that Sen started looking at things differently.

“When my three -year -old daughter asked me, ‘Are you dying? Are you dying? And will you dance in my wedding?” Three questions broke through my mental block.

He also started challenging the way he explained medical predictions, realizing that drug is a treatment profession and not a future.

While he appreciated the care and urgency made by doctors, he knew that there was a chance that he was wrong.

He said, “I understood that they were not in my favor ‘given’, rather they were also not zero. So my ineligible journey for treatment began when I was able to successfully predict the 100 days of prediction ‘me’,” he said.

Cancer treatment

As the treatment began, which included surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, Sen realized that his own work would be important as medical intervention.

He said, “I could not just sit back and allow my doctors to do everything. I felt that they treated with me and drove the first leg of the relay and then it was on me that I should take care of myself,” he said.

He began with one of the most unseen aspects of life: how time is spent. Instead of stealing time from his family and work, he rebuilt sleep and rest.

His approach to food also changed during recovery.

“Food is fuel for my body. Just as the kind of gas (petrol) I am in my car, I will use the same hard work in the selection of food in the same way. I put all my food in three groups, Group 1: Group 2: Group 2: Eat anytime, and Group 3: To taste only a little.

Moderate physical activity and self-awareness became part of his routine. He said, “I realized that my body had beaten one and was weaker than before. As I had taken that body through a difficult disqualified journey, I wanted to take the best care of myself,” he said.

mental strength

As he navigated the side effects of the treatment of cancer, Sen bowed to his mental strength and self-compassion, not the acceptance of the acceptance or sympathy.

He found happiness and empowerment even in the weakest moments.

“For example, when I started losing hair, I found a hair buzzer. I invited some of my best friends for a pizza party. At the end of the party, I put some music and we all turned to shut down our hair. I think even in the most difficult days, we can still control our journey in life,” said Sen.

So of course, there were ups and downs of recovery. He said, “At the end of the first set of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, I slowly started going back into therapy. But there was no relief. There were failures as a side effect of surgery. It was all important to keep some people quiet and strong,” he said.

He compares it to a mathematics puzzle he loved as a child.

“Growing, it was my favorite mathematics problem. A monkey is trying to climb a 50 feet slippery pole. It grows 1 meter every minute and slips 1/2 meters every minute. At what time he will reach the top? My life soon became a single problem. Sometimes I will slip more than slipping more times.”

Building immunity

After treatment, Sen was disciplined in protecting his health by making less food more often.

He said, “There are no plants or flowers at home.

Sen believes that two things matter the most: his people and his mindset.

Today, after more than two decades, his body is cancer-free, and his attitude remains in readiness, not denying.

“My pregnancy is simple; today my body is cancer -free, but my mind will be cancer free forever. I am in the truth. I never tell myself that it will not be easy tomorrow, but I am ready to fight in the world of ‘when cancer back’ and ‘if the cancer is back’ is not hidden in the world of myself.”

Sen’s extraordinary story has inspired a feature film of flexibility, starring Abishek Bachchan, directed by Shujit Sirkar, and released in 2024.

But for that, the message is simple: “If we can never lose our smile and be positive in the journey, then unqualified our DNA and true self -descriptions.”