Subscribed. I check in on the lemmy.world community with my kbin account (can’t view from Beehaw), so happy to have another community I can see from here.

“Dealing with” is pretty much exactly what cope means. Per Merriam Webster:

“to deal with and attempt to overcome problems and difficulties —often used with with”

Personally I do think it works well for this situation. Though I’ve been very fortunate to not have been diagnosed with cancer yet, so I consider my input…less relevant.

For the record: the same writer/director duo also just did the Dungeons and Dragons movie which is similarly a very, very good time.