Even the very young ones knew that cancer could kill you and they didn't differentiate between different types of cancers, at all. Cancer was cancer and it involved a threat of death.

We were building on work done earlier, in which women with early breast cancer were interviewed, and it was discovered that talking to their children about their disease contributed to their distress.

But some of them were amazed to find that the children had known all along that there was something very serious going on, but hadn't known what it was until the mother had actually told them.

The cancer was contained within the prostate and has been completely removed. We expect that his cancer is cured.

With a cancer patient, the person knows and is aware of a lot of the things going on. But in dementia patients, that is not the case.

Diagnosis of ovarian cancer is made so difficult, because the symptoms overlap with so many others for benign conditions that affect the over-50 age group. But, being aware of your body and noting when things change could save your life.