Table 3 Fictional newspaper headlines and the resulting theme

Cancer diagnosis made me grow up

Life changing impact of diagnosis

I’m more than my cancer

Provision of information

If I’d had known… I would have travelled there

Place of care

Cancer nurse tells mum to get out)

Role of health professionals

It’ll finish one day, treatment’s not forever

Coping

Rehab[ilitation] buddies for cancer survivors

Peer support

Counselling for patients to cope

Psychological support

The tumour’s out but what now

Life after cancer