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Letter: I have modernised my relationship with cancer

Published 22 May 2024

Name and address supplied

Thank you for David Ropeik’s excellent and, for me, timely article on cancerphobia. I have just undergone treatment for breast cancer, including surgery and radiotherapy. I have deliberately limited the people who know, specifically because I couldn’t face inaccurate, exaggerated, even hysterical responses. I am still working out how I might broach the subject; most probably, I won’t (27 April, p 21).

Issue no. 3492 published 25 May 2024

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