Analysis
The open-ended free-text question was placed at the end of the questionnaire, following the closed questions, with the header: ‘If you have anything else you would like to tell us about living with and beyond cancer, please do so here:’. Comments were analysed using the NVivo software package (Gibbs et al 2002), using a two stage approach. Similar analyses of comments within quantitative surveys have previously been used to research health service issues (Richards et al 2009, Baille et al (2009).