by Kate Robinson | May 9, 2025 | Patient Stories, West Suffolk
I had no idea it was going to be the lifeline that it has been for me. After serving 25-years in the Coldstream Guards including several active tours in Northern Ireland and Sarajevo there’s not much that fazes Stan Jackson. But finding out overnight that he had Stage...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 24, 2025 | Charity News
We’ve been invited! Pioneering national mobile cancer care charity, Hope for Tomorrow, has been invited to attend a community reception, hosted by HM The King and HM The Queen, on the 30 April at Buckingham Palace. The exclusive invitation follows Hope for...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 9, 2025 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
It’s like walking into a little oasis that takes all the sting out of everything bad. That’s how Sally Shillington describes her visits to the mobile cancer care unit in Louth in Lincolnshire. Sally likes to refer to the unit as ‘the bus’ and jokes that she feels...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 9, 2025 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
The environment isn’t fraught with the hustle and bustle of an oncology department “I was diagnosed with breast cancer about 15 years ago after having a mammogram,” begins Jocelyn, who is retired. “I had radiotherapy at Colchester General before getting the ‘all...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 8, 2025 | Patient Stories, South Wiltshire
Sometimes you just want to be wrapped up in a great big comfort blanket and that’s what the mobile unit does for me. The former prison governor was 58 when he was told he had terminal lung cancer in the summer of 2020 after weeks of putting his symptoms down to Covid....
