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Why won't the fight cancer?

Q My husband, who is just 70, has recently found out that the cancer he had 20 years ago has returned. We thought we had beaten it, but now he apparently has secondaries.

I’m 65 and the news is devastating. We’ve been married since we left school. Now my husband, who has to walk with a frame, has said emphatically that it is ‘time to go’ and he’s adamant that he doesn’t want chemotherapy again. He just wants to go into a hospice and ‘fade

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