By Jessica Jaganathan

A POPULAR website which gives support to cancer patients will become inactive from the end of next week after its founder decided to give up volunteer work.

The site, www.cancerstory.com, has been operating for about eight years, and its founder, Ms Lee Soh Hong, has won two awards from Reader's Digest magazine for inspiring people. In its heyday, it attracted up to 1,000 hits a day.

But now, Ms Lee, 46, has decided not to continue, despite getting several e-mail messages each day from readers.

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