‘Men struggle with low mood more than women after treatment’
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‘Men struggle with low mood more than women after treatment’

Daniel Allen Health writer

In the second of our series looking at different patient population groups and the challenges they face, we focus on men who are living with cancer

When Errol McKellar was told he had prostate cancer, which if left unchecked could kill him in six months, he walked out of the consultation, sat in his car and ‘cried like a baby’.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 17, 6, 16-18. doi: 10.7748/cnp.17.6.16.s17

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