For young adults with cancer, battling an ‘old person’s disease’ is a lonely journey
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Ms Faridah Ahmad was barely 18 when her world fell apart after being diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the body’s germ-fighting immune system, in 2014. Devastated, she actively sought help from counsellors, psychiatrists, social workers, and support groups to guide her through a particularly difficult time, but found that no one could truly understand what she was going through. Read more here.
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