article_snippet: I think the cancer takes your identity, the cancer becomes who you are. '
article_snippet: Then you're put into a box by the type of cancer you have, and then you're a terminal patient and you're put into a box. '
article_snippet: Prognosis 12 mths to my expiry date.
article_snippet: It may not be brain surgery, but It sure beats chemo!'
article_snippet: could develop such a disease .
article_snippet: I have no bowel, no bladder, only part of my stomach, I had organs removed
article_snippet: When they told me that I thought well 'what do you do?' 'I met people who had sat at home and died.
article_snippet: and I don't want cancer to take that away from people.'