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If
you or one of your family or friends has been
diagnosed with a terminal or inoperable
cancer or is not eligible for any curative treatment,
it does not mean that this part of life will be
without hope and joy.
Why do we talk about hope? Well it's because
every day we are making progress in the fight
against cancer. In fact, we are treating and
curing more and more people every year. We are
also able to get cancer into remission more frequently.
But even with these advances, we need to talk
about you and your end of life journey.
It
is hard to enter a phase of life in which we are
expected to die. We have heard it all our lives
- "you can die at any second" - but
many of us don't have an incurable cancer. You
will be very vulnerable to many suggestions about
possible treatments that are just promises but
have little hope of working. You hope that you
will be that 1 in 1,000 that has a cure without
explanation. However the reality and statistics
say that you won't be that person.
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