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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Bryony Gooch

‘Cancer put me in survival mode - the NHS offered me no support to process the trauma’

A 37-year-old cancer survivor has called on the NHS to step up its after-care psychological support as a charity has revealed patients face a “postcode lottery” for services.

Zoe Yessian, a mental health nurse from London, was 34 when she was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. She has told The Independent after a year of surgery, egg preservation surgery, chemo and radiation therapy, she was not offered any post-treatment psychological support despite her body entering a “medical crash menopause” in her thirties.

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