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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…
Improving outcomes in elderly patients taking multiple medications
For older patients with cancer, taking multiple medications can result in toxic chemotherapy side effects and even the need to stop cancer treatment. The cohort study, published in Cancer, 24th January, found cancer patients with one or more potential drug…