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. 2004 May 25;91(1):62–68. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601892

Box 2. Experience of cancer.

We haven't anyone in the family but I know someone who has cancer, their daughter has cancer. So we hear about it that it is very painful. We also knew someone in Pakistan who had three or four children who all died from cancer. Thirteen fourteen years of age, one five year old. Didn't realise they had cancer. When it was in its final stage, they found it.
 
One of my close friends, actually she went on holiday to Pakistan. When she came back she had a very high temperature. When she got back within a week she was admitted into hospital, because of the temperature and she was expecting as well. They couldn't figure out why her temperature was so high. She had advance cancer of the throat. The only time it comes up, that type of cancer, the only time they can actually diagnose it is in its advanced stage, and you can't do anything about it. Within four weeks she died.
 
Even with the young person died. The treatment might have lacked in something. There should be some research done, and to concentrate on it. The child had his treatment done, he stayed alive for six years. He had started a job. After that when he was twenty-six years of age the cancer came back and then he died.
 
Have experience, but, they were related to us, like I said they had hair loss, they didn't know that they had cancer. The doctor said, they didn't go to the doctors, kept taking paracetamol. Her condition got worse, they got admitted into hospital, they were told then it was cancer. They couldn't do anything.
 
We never told our father he had cancer. He was very ill first, few days how long he survived.
What, the family never told him?
The family, yes. He didn't know it. This is the last because there is no cure.