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Cancer Lads
Cancer Lads - What it feels like to be a young adult diagnosed with cancer
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Ryan
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Season 1
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Episode 2
The honest truth about how it feels to be a young adult diagnosed with cancer. The battles we face, the emotions we go through and the thoughts we have.
This episode focuses on:
- The particular challenges that young adults face
- Why are there so many more young adults diagnosed with cancer?
- How it feels to be diagnosed at what is usually regarded as your prime age
- The dramatic and traumatising shift in life
- How are we supposed to deal with it?
- Cancer wards for young adults
- Feeling like the forgotten ones
- Falling behind your peers
- Hopes and dreams you've worked hard for, ruined
- Anxiety
- Support for young adults
- Life after cancer