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Josh: I didn’t realise what I was being like due to cancer
“The diagnosis was a very sad and stressful time for myself, my family, and all my close friends. I really didn’t know what to expect.“
Josh was only sixteen when he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Burkitt’s Lymphoma. He wasn’t prepared for how cancer would change him, both physically and mentally.
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