Two-thirds of cancer patients do not completely understand what their diagnosis means. “Marilyn said she was not encouraged to ask questions, and believes she was made to feel that she was some kind of freak.
When she asked her consultant if she would lose her hair, he responded by saying: ‘Bald women are really sexy’. She didn’t laugh.”






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