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(Originally posted on Rose Hendricks’ blog on 12 February 2019) by Rose Hendricks Cancer is hard to talk about. It’s serious, often frightening, and complicated….
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(Originally on ehospice on 17 December 2014) by Elena Semino On 15 November 2014, Melanie Reid wrote passionately in The Times about the use of…