The Jonathan Dimbleby doctrine: You don’t beat cancer by not talking about it

The Jonathan Dimbleby doctrine: You don’t beat cancer by not talking about it – Profiles – People – The Independent.

Britain in 1965 was not a country that talked about cancer. Strange as it may seem in 2014, all the more so  after the tragic death of Stephen Sutton – the teenager who made no bones about his terminal condition, spoke frankly about it on social media and inspired the country to give millions to charity – the disease was once of those things that was kept behind closed doors; muttered about in hushed euphemisms and rarely mentioned publicly.

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