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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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 Sam & Janice |
Samantha Ho was rushed over to New Zealand from Fiji with her older sister Janice and their father, Jason. She had a rapidly progressing cancer in her hip and was not able to be cared for appropriately in her home country. Sam spent six months enduring intensive chemotherapy and surgery. During this time I (Koral) had the pleasure to meet them, and tell them about CanTeen and what we offer.
While they were in NZ, Sa...
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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.
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.
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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