Breast cancer patients and family members gather in a room on the 10th floor of Tokyo Kyosai Hospital to sit down and share their troubles, while Kaori Osawa, a medical social worker, acts as moderator and answers questions.
“When I first told my children that their mother may not live long, they became scared. But now, they’ve gotten used to that,” one of the patients said.
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