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Published Date: 05 February 2007
By CLARE SMITH
SINCE the first Maggie's Centre opened in Edinburgh ten years ago, thousands of cancer patients and their families have benefited from its support. But the introduction of centres in Glasgow, Dundee, Inverness and Kirkcaldy have also made life very different for the doctors who deal with cancer patients every day.
The centres were the brainchild of the late Maggie Keswick, who was treated for cancer at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, and set about planning centres to help cancer patients.

Doctors working at the hospitals in which the Maggie's Ce...

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