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Cancer 114

For the first time in about three weeks, I am feeling fairly normal. I am sitting in the rooftop restaurant in the hospital waiting for my chemotherapy. Having cancer is a little like being in the armed forces. There is a lot of waiting involved and at the end of it a serious risk of […]

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Cancer 104

A very popular way of dealing with human problems is the support group, usually now the online support group. Before I retired I was slightly involved with these support groups, usually in relation to students’ small-scale research projects. I sometimes wondered about their value but never really thought it through. They are presumably very helpful […]

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Cancer 100

As this is my 100th blog on my cancer I feel it ought to be somehow special, but it isn’t, apart from being longer than average, sorry. While I am not sure what aspects of cancer could be special in a positive sense I don’t know. To coincide with the 100th cancer blog there are […]

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Cancer 93

I had a terrible dream last night, one of those that takes over your whole self, even when you have woken up. Probably fortunately I don’t remember it in detail though I did for the first minutes after waking, but it was about having cancer, and I was bleeding heavily around the lower abdomen and […]

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