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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Katie Strick

‘Living with incurable cancer can be lonely — we want our badge to start a conversation’

Lucy King and Lucy Hilton became friends through the very thing they’re hoping to improve for others: talking about what it’s actually like to be living with incurable cancer — a condition which, though life-changing, often has no visible sign.

The pair met through through Lloyds Pharmacy Clinical Homecare team in October and quickly realised they had a lot in common: they shared the same name, they’d had their initial diagnosis of colo-rectal cancer within the same fortnight, and both have the same incurable prognosis.

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