“…The experience of many of our participants would meet this description, due particularly to mesothelioma's poor prognosis. Our study aligns with prior research showing that receiving a cancer diagnosis is the most frequent traumatic stressor (Springer et al, 2023). In recent mesothelioma literature, the adverse impact of receiving a poor prognosis has been emphasised (Johnson et al, 2022;Lond et al, 2022).…”