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Prostate Cancer: Finding Answers

When someone suspects or is diagnosed with cancer, many questions arise. Questions about testing and diagnosis, treatment, finances, effects on life, coping and social support. Here you can listen to many different prostate cancer survivors and how they experienced this particular phase of their cancer journey or this aspect of their life.

How did you realise that something is not normal? What symptoms did you have? What motivated you to go to the doctor?

What procedures were performed to test for cancer? How did you receive the cancer diagnosis? And how did you experience the breaking of the diagnosis?

How was radiotherapy performed? How have you experienced the radiation therapy and what were side effects?  

How was the chemotherapy for you? And how did you experience the chemotherapy and the side effects? 

How expensive was the treatment and how did you manage to pay for it?

How did you tell your family that you were identified with cancer? How did they react to it? How did they support you?

Who supported you during your cancer journey? How did they support you?

How did cancer affect your daily life? What changes did you make?

How did you cope with cancer and its side effects? What coping strategies did help you?

What role has faith had for you during your your cancer journey?

How was the surgery for you? And how did you experience the surgery and the side effects? 

What recommendations do cancer survivors have for cancer patients?

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All survivors gave informed consent and expressed how we are allowed to use their videos, audios, and names. We strictly followed their expressed wish.