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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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    Breast cancer/radiotherapy

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    Skin cancer diagnosis

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    Coping with raising a child with a father who has cancer?

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    Kidney Cancer - why all the urgent referrals?

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    Living with two different cancers - in remission from multiple myeloma but I also have stage 3 ovarian cancer. Is anyone else going through the same?

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    Waiting for womb biopsy results

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    Seeking Advice: family member had prostate cancer 4 years ago and now it has returned as incurable bone cancer

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