Princess Catherine has a media team, but updating others about cancer treatment can be tough
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Princess Catherine has a media team, but updating others about cancer treatment can be tough

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When surgeons found a cancerous tumour during a colonoscopy Amanda Wright thought she was having for haemorrhoids, the only call she made was to her husband. "I sent my mother a Facebook message, which is a shit way to do it, but I couldn't stop crying and I really didn't want to have an actual conversation with anyone," says the 43-year-old from Mackay/Yuwibara Country, who has since been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. The cancer identity If someone is feeling like people only ever want to talk about their health, Professor White suggests reminding people about "who you are beyond your diagnosis". "I'm cautiously optimistic, yet the month before receiving my own diagnosis, we travelled to New Zealand for the funeral of one of my husband's best friends who also had bowel cancer," Amanda says. Amanda is also focused on improving the cancer pathway for others, and says she's happy to embrace her "cancer identity" if that helps.

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