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    Kurt’s story

    16th May 2014

    On the 10th December 2009 my world came close to ending. My best friend, my buddy, my wife to be was in theatre at Sheffield Royal Hallamshire Hospital having a major operation to remove a cancerous tumour from her abdomen. To get all technical it was a retroperitoneal sarcoma,…

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    Dallas’s story

    16th May 2014

    I’m a talker, from a family of talkers, but I just couldn’t find the words to say how I felt. Dallas was diagnosed with breast cancer on April 11th 2003 aged 33. At the time she was working as a primary school teacher.

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    Margaret’s story

    13th May 2014

    They helped me realise its not always about ‘being strong’ – you have to open up. In 2006 Margaret  was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer age 57. Several years before, her husband Don had been successfully treated for bowel cancer.

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    Elizabeth’s story

    13th May 2014

    My first impressions of The Cavendish Centre were positive and I was able to have an appointment very quickly. I felt at home from the start and I had an extremely helpful assessment with a lady called Gillian. Just knowing you can pick the phone up and talk to someone is incredibly reassuring.

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    Nick’s story

    13th May 2014

    "I just wanted my life back. That made me more and more determined. That drives you on. "

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