by Kate Robinson | Feb 6, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
…it’s very efficient and you’re often seen straightaway 62-year-old Richard was diagnosed with myeloma in early 2014. He explains: “I’d been having quite a problem before that with back pain, and I thought I was just a bloke with a bad back. I went...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 2, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
Everyone should know about them… I’m already doing my bit to make sure they do “Nobody would believe me when I said I was receiving my treatments on a bus”, laughs Linda, “let alone that one of them is also called ‘Linda’! I had to take a photo and send it...
by Kate Robinson | Jan 30, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
Peter, who is 64 and now retired, reflects on when he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019: “I had a major operation and was then put on a course GemCap (a combination of gemcitabine and capecitabine). Because this consisted of a tablet once a day for...
by Kate Robinson | Jan 16, 2024 | MCCU Staff Stories
Because we offer a small, intimate environment for treatment, it is much easier to put people at ease. The first-time chemo nurse Sarah Bamford went out on the mobile cancer care unit, she knew immediately that it was what she wanted to do. Currently she works as a...
by Kate Robinson | Jan 12, 2024 | Charity News
In 100 days’ time, British endurance racing star Darren Turner will participate in his fourth London Marathon as he aims to raise £5,000 for Gloucestershire-based Hope for Tomorrow, which provides mobile cancer care units for NHS Trusts around the UK. Turner, who is a...
