For young adults with cancer, battling an ‘old person’s disease’ is a lonely journey

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Ms Faridah Ahmad was barely 18 when her world fell apart after being diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the body’s germ-fighting immune system, in 2014. Devastated, she actively sought help from counsellors, psychiatrists, social workers, and support groups to guide her throug

h a particularly difficult time, but found that no one could truly understand what she was going through. Video: Nuria Ling/TODAY h a particularly difficult time, but found that no one could truly understand what she was going through.

Video: Nuria Ling/TODAY

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