Lymphoma

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In this section you can find out about the experience of lymphoma by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film.

Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 45 people in their own homes. Find out what people said about issues such as symptoms, treatment and impact on work and family.

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Interview 06: On Saturday May the 28th I found this lump. I went to NHS Direct and read that any lumps or swellings in the neck report to your doctor immediately. Of course it was a bank holiday, wasn't it.

Interview 22: Because you go through a series of tests and so on, the diagnosis kind of drips out almost.

Interview 12: And my first thought as I walked out was, I'm 36 years old, I've got three children and I'm going to die. I think that's the only time I ever said that though.

Interview 16: I think the worst, the worst part is -, the worst part that I've, that I remember really well was the watching and waiting [‘watch and wait’] policy.

Interview 33: And that and that-, and I do feel like that it's-, it’s something that happened and something that I learned from. But it's very it's-, it's further away and it's a kind of a thing that that has formed me but it's it doesn't define me.

This section is from research by the University of Oxford.

Supported by:

Cancer Research UK

Publication date: September 2007.

Last updated: February 2016.

Last reviewed: January 2025.