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A lot of people ask me, is it hard to be a member of an organisation where death is a real possibility? Although that question has been asked many times it’s not until you are faced with the prospect of losing a friend do you really stop and think why am I apart of this organisation that potentially cou... 
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CanTeen put him through the Spirit of New Zealand and sail down to the Marlborough Sounds for 10 days. He did that and loved it so that made him become a voyager.
Hi, my name is Tammy, my brother and I we live in Tauranga. I am 15 years of age and my brother Hayden is 20.
we got invoved in CanTeen our older brother Glendon was diagnosed with liver cancer in 19...
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I know most people think of chemotherapy patients as being skin and bone; bald people with a rasping cough and sunken eyes but I'm proof that this is not always the case. I finished my two years of chemotherapy with a 30kg weight gain and a mullet. While I did indeed lose weight (and my hair) in the first part of my treatment, the second, less intensive phase indeed
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At first I went to the doctor for a check up because I was tired and pale. I expected to just be given some antibiotics for anaemia or glandular fever at worst.
I think back in the days, when I was happy. I had things going for me, I had lots of friends and I was even in a band. Things were starting to ‘kick off’!
My twin brother Scott got diagnosed with Leukaemia when we were about to turn five. This meant that I spent most of my first year of primary school at the hospital with him.
Cancer in her leg cut short a promising sporting career.
I remember scoring goals in soccer cos nobody wanted to tackle a chick with a bald head…
When I applied to go to camp, my sister Sally-Anne was still here.
I was 14 years old when I was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour (medullablastoma) which has a 20% survival rate.
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