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Being diagnosed with cancer was like being let in on a secret
After being told she has a rare tumour, nurse Bethann Siviter turns to Google for answers
After being told she has a rare tumour, nurse Bethann Siviter turns to Google for answers
The path to finding out you have cancer starts with not being invited to join a room full of people who’ve never met you, known as the multidisciplinary team (MDT): they find out before you do and make decisions about you without you being there.
In my imagination the MDT are like the gods on Olympus, discussing their plans to meddle with mortals.
After the MDT meeting, a doctor let me in on the big secret. ‘You have colon cancer,’ he said, and then after an uncomfortable moment added, ‘Although it's not colon cancer. It’s a NET. So we are referring you. They’ll take over your care’.
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