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Maureen with Piers and his children (Picture: Maureen Dougall) ‘I’ve not been feeling very well,’ Piers told me. ‘In fact, I’ve been back and forth to the GP since October.’ I looked at my eldest son in concern as he’d explained he’d been suffering from backache, indigestion and an upset stomach for two months now….
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Lia, left, with her sister Mary (Picture: Lia Zorzou) As soon as my mother called me to say my sister, Mary, had been diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma – a very rare and aggressive cancer – I felt numb. Immediately, and without anyone explicitly asking, my instincts kicked in so I leapt into action to be by…
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His diagnosis set him down a dark path (Picture: Media Wales) When Garret Cann was diagnosed with cancer in his late 20s, he found himself going down a dark road in an attempt to cope. It was a path that led to him being in the worst shape of his life – until he turned…
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After three months, I started developing feelings for Caicy (Picture: Faye Waghorn) When you come out of a long relationship, the last thing on your mind is getting into another one. That’s what I thought when I met Caicy, five years ago on Bumble. I’d come out of a two-year-long relationship and decided to try…
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I didn’t realise how important a consideration Body Mass Index was when medical professionals made clinical decisions (Picture: Getty Images) I can still recall with dismay one of the first times I had a full medical check-up. After examining me, the GP looked at his chart and said, rather matter of fact, that I was…
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Lyndsay, left, and Kimberley have been friends since school (Picture: Lyndsey Doyle) I’ve known my best friend Kimberley since we were 17. We went to the same dance college, and when she joined in my second year, I thought she was amazing. We clicked instantly. We were inseparable, seeing out the rest of our teens…
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Zlata Tkachenko, 4, is in the UK but is battling a second war with cancer (Pictures: Alina Tkachenko) A Ukrainian four-year-old suffering from cancer has made it safely to the UK – but still fears Vladimir Putin’s troops from 2,000 miles away. Zlata Tkachenko, who has acute leukaemia, spent the first weeks of the war sheltering in…
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The kindest of gestures (Picture: SWNS) A woman who was unable to carry a child after cervical cancer has become a mum – thanks to a friend who stepped in as a surrogate. Cassie Bush, 32, first noticed bleeding after sex in 2016 and was diagnosed with cervical ectropion, a condition where the cells from…
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When Susan Daniels called up to arrange her screening appointment for breast cancer in March 2020, she was told that everything had been put on hold, due to the pandemic. ‘I remember feeling disappointed, but I did understand,’ she tells Metro.co.uk. ‘At that point, going to public places felt like it carried a higher risk…
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As I posed for the photographer, hand on hip, I felt confident, liberated and sexy. But it wasn’t just any photoshoot, I was topless – revealing the results of my mastectomy I’d had just three months earlier. I was a little nervous taking my clothes off in front of a stranger, but I thought: If…
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