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From “No Chance” to “All Bloody Clear”: John Walker Pattison’s 50-Year Journey and the Challenge of Cancer Survivorship
John Walker Pattison with his family A Diagnosis That Changed Everything I was born in South Shields sixty-nine years ago. My childhood was happy, if uneventful, and I left school with what I would later describe as a handful of…
To Stand, To Move, To Live: Musculoskeletal Health as part of the Cancer Journey
At a cancer forum not long ago, after I introduced myself as an orthopaedic surgery resident, someone asked — with genuine curiosity — “But why are you here?” The question stayed with me, because it revealed a paradox: musculoskeletal health…