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 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
There is no hanging around; you just rock up, get your stuff done, and then you’re off. Diana, 65, is from Colchester and was diagnosed with lung cancer two and a half years ago, during COVID. She explains: “I’d had a cough for about a year and it wouldn’t shift. At...
by Kate Robinson | Jul 18, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
The unit is in a lovely big car park at Tesco so there is never any problem finding a space, it just doesn’t get any easier than that. Michaell Joslin received his NHS bowel screening kit in the post just as the world was going into lockdown in 2020. “I thought it was...
by Kate Robinson | May 30, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
It seems pretty logical to me that the more relaxed and the calmer you are before treatment, the more beneficial it is going to be. When Kathryn was attending hospital for her post cancer treatment it wasn’t just the 30-minute drive in unpredictable traffic that she...
by Kate Robinson | May 30, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
In a matter of minutes, I’m out of my front door and on the mobile unit. John was first diagnosed with myeloma in 2014. “I had pains down my neck and back, and my GP couldn’t quite figure out what it was, so he referred me to a specialist,” he explains. “I was told...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 15, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
It means I can spend more time with my children Thirty-six-year-old Anna went to the doctor in her native Ukraine during the summer of 2021 after experiencing a hardness in one of her breasts. She was given a course of antibiotics, but when she returned to her GP with...
