‘It couldn’t be cancer. A year later it turned out that it was’ | Lifestyle

Nicky van Hees: “It was quite a blow.”

Ⓒ Matty van Wijnbergen

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Only a fifth of the Dutch are aware of the symptoms of head and neck cancer, a recent study by DirectResearch commissioned by the Patient Association Head and Neck showed. While it can literally be of vital importance, Nicky van Hees (48) knows who continued to distrust a strange place in her mouth.

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