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Interview LC44  

Interview LC44

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 54
Background: University lecturer, married, 2 children.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2003 (later confirmed as small cell), followed by chemotherapy May-August 2003, and is waiting to start radiotherapy.


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Says that his children reacted to the news of his diagnosis in very different ways.

 



Telling our two children was extremely difficult. We actually told them on the same day, but not at the same time and the reason for that is that they're very different people and they reacted, in fact they reacted as we thought they would react, but in very different ways. My son, if he's told bad news, becomes very quiet and introspective. And you, you may wait for months before you get comments or questions about what you've said.

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And the worse the news the longer that period of time, the more he's processing it. Whereas my daughter is much more, you get an immediate response and her immediate response was to be very tearful. So they, they reacted in exactly the same way, in exactly the, the way that I would have expected them to have reacted. My daughter's married, so you know, we also told my son-in-law at the same time and my son has a partner so we, we told her at the, the same time and that was really hard to do. 
Karol Sikora - Lung cancer
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