public health

We are cancer patients’ informal caregivers, and we deserve support

“How brave! I admire all the strength she’s shown during her mother’s illness. She didn’t even cry at mass!” Those were the words that, on many occasions, I heard from many people during and after the illness and death of my mother from stomach cancer. I didn’t know what to answer. I didn’t know if […]

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