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Power of cancer Support groups

While doctors and other medical practitioners do their best to prescribe medicine and procedures to ease the pain for terminally ill patients, most still suffer from loneliness and depression. However, joining support groups could ease these, writes NJOKI CHEGE

The thought that one could die any time soon is depressing and sickening. It becomes even more taxing when patients have to contend with a cocktail of drugs and endless visits to doctors for painful and expensive medical procedures.

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