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the A survey has found a quarter of us are too afraid to go
Face Your Fear the doctor if we are experiencing a potential cancer

symptom, whilst more than half of the adults surveyed
campaign (51% ) wouldn’t immediately seek help if they became
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aware of a symptom that could indicate cancer.

#FaceYourFear

We get it. The prospect of being told you have lung spreading, potentially eradicating the chance of life-
cancer is one of the scariest things imaginable and the lengthening and even curative treatment.
statistics bandied around the internet only add to the
terror. As a result, there is understandably a belief that Because we know catching it early significantly
lung cancer is an instant death sentence; that nothing increases your chance of having curative treatment.
can be done and so people would rather not know. And advances in treatment mean more people are
Ignorance is bliss and all that… living longer and living well with late-stage lung cancer.
People like Joe and Wendy.
However, if you have lung cancer, ignoring symptoms
won’t stop you having it. In fact, ignoring symptoms Joe was diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer in
will only make things worse; undiagnosed and 2011 after antibiotics failed to clear up his cough:

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