Dating sites for cancer survivors

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Dating for cancer patients and those who are living with its scars can be a taboo topic for people. The article focuses on the emotional challenges cancer patients face, and how online dating apps can help them to feel emotionally supported and hopeful about their life. Though the topic looks slightly strange, the facts and figures will raise your concern about people suffering from cancer. Once diagnosed, almost all cancer patients feel psychological and emotional issues that can live with them for a longer time even after the treatment. This may include fear of recurrence, depression, grief due to loss of health, issues with body image, and relationships. Patients who are under the treatment, having functional limitations, and having low family support get into social isolation, as the life around them keeps going on. The most frustrating thing for cancer patients who have experienced amputations, or major changes in their physical appearance is a lack of self-esteem.

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Founded by cancer survivor Lesley Topping in , C is for Cupid www. The service is free, run by a handful of cancer survivors and friends, and aimed at providing a comfortable and fun environment for members to connect with others who can relate. No, but it appeals to many, and we certainly have an awesome and diverse membership facing the challenges of a terrible illness. As of October , there are about 1, members, some of whom, Topping says, have made lasting friendships through the site. Members create a profile and decide how much personal medical information to reveal about themselves.

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The online dating world can be overwhelming at the best of times. First there's the swiping and matching, before you even have to worry about being ghosted or maybe even meeting the person in real life.

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In Sickness and in Health: Dating Apps in the Cancer World

Sometimes as a single cancer woman in remission from advanced bowel cancer I feel like a single bashed up tube of Pringles that nobody wants and has left on the supermarket shelf forever. That's how online dating feels to me. I am in remission from advanced bowel cancer that spread into my vagina and lymph nodes. I also wear a colostomy bag.

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