19 June 2019 - As cancer doctors, we know the hardest words we can say to our patients are “you have cancer”.

These words are some of the most devastating and most terrifying a patient and their family will ever hear.

If the patient is a child, it is deeply traumatising for their parents. If the patient is a parent, their first thought goes to their children and how it will affect them.

We know that a patient’s cancer care journey starts with those hard to hear words, but there is a community of connected and experienced health professionals who work together to lessen the blow of this awful diagnosis.

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