For some cancer patients, they're battling the disease - and discrimination

Headlines on health
30/08/2024 6 min
For some cancer patients, they're battling the disease - and discrimination

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For many in Australia the fear of one day being diagnosed with cancer is something they dread. But there is something perhaps even more dreadful for those diagnosed; discrimination during cancer treatment, because of who you are or where you come from. A new campaign by the Leukaemia Foundation aims to face that issue head on:

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