When I was first diagnosed with terminal peritoneal mesothelioma in 2006, I couldn’t find a single positive story on the internet, which was utterly terrifying. If you, or someone you know, has mesothelioma, please know there are positive stories.

You are reading one, right now, and there are more on the websites below.

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Before we go any further, be aware I am neither a doctor nor a scientist. In fact, I was so ignorant of our physiology that when I was first diagnosed I asked if I had prostate cancer (in case your knowledge of our anatomy is where mine was, women don’t have a prostate gland), and Mr Ind, my consultant, kindly told me that would indeed be rare, but it was not the cancer I had!