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Your space to discuss the impact of living with cancer. It can help to share with people who understand.

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Caring for someone with cancer

Share your feelings and get support if someone you care about is living with cancer.

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    My mother has just been told she has end of life liver cancer. How do we get palliative care started? Is it through the specialist or the GP?

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    live alone with an incurable diagnosis

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    Immunotherapy

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    Left hemicolectomy - is this the large or small colon/bowel?

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    moles examination

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    Malignant melanoma stage 1A - so worried. Will be life ever be normal again?

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    Diagnosed today with malignant melanoma on my head

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    Possible colon cancer

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    speech loss - family member struggling with his speech. Will it come back? He has lung cancer and a brain tumour and because it's terminal he's had no treatment

    Started by caerphilly in Caring for someone with cancer
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    Last Reply 21 hours ago
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    How do I tell my children their grandad doesn't have long left?

    Started by Gemzilou in Dying with cancer
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    Blood test question

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