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Radiation machine replacement forces NSW Mid North Coast cancer patients to Sydney

Jeff Craven's partner Stella Mangan will travel to Sydney to support him during treatment. (ABC Mid North Coast: Madeleine Cross)

Frozen meals cooked by his partner are the only creature comforts that remind pensioner Jeff Craven of home while he lives in a Sydney hostel so he can get timely cancer treatment.

Mr Craven will be away from his Dunbogan home, 370 kilometres north of Sydney, for seven weeks to receive treatment for tongue and tonsil cancer.

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