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Sat 09 Sep 2007Face to faceWho would ever think a mouth ulcer would be a sign of cancer? The novelist Lia Mills has written an acute and insightful memoir of her passage through the cancer ward. She talks to Kate Holmquist.Deep down we all know we're heading for it - that moment when the diagnosis changes everything and suddenly there's not enough time. It throws every dull moment of ordinary living into relief, making even a fly buzzing over our head around the hospital bed seem almost sacred.