I’ve just been diagnosed with cancer, now what?

  • Written by: Marilynne N Kirshbaum, Professor and Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee, Charles Darwin University
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In one pivotal instant your life has changed and there will be no turning back. How will you accept, adjust and adapt to being “someone who has cancer”?

Well, first, you are still the same person. But now you have a definitive diagnosis calling for your immediate attention.

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