'These nurses have made a terrible situation more bearable'

    Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
    |June 1, 2017
    PubMed

    I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in June last year. Unbelievably, my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer in July. We had married that March. Now we both have just months to live.

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