by Kate Robinson | Nov 1, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
When they first told me about the mobile unit I thought, ‘oh, great, that’s a lot nearer.’ “I suppose it all started about three years ago when I found a lump in my breast while doing Pilates,” recalls Lynne, who is 65 and lives in Fairford, Gloucestershire. “I...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 18, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
It sounds a bit strange, but I don’t feel like I’m a cancer sufferer when I attend the unit. Liza was diagnosed two years ago after she slipped and broke her neck in the garden. After further investigations in hospital, they found that she had small cell...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 15, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
Apart from saving on travel costs, it is far more serene and much calmer than on the wards Almost three years ago, Janet went to her GP complaining of bleeding mouth ulcers. She was referred for a scan which revealed the worst possible news that it was terminal lung...
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 | Aug 3, 2023 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
Hope for Tomorrow has come to the rescue again! “I was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2013 after it was picked up in a routine mammogram. I was lucky because it wasn’t advanced, it was quite small. I had a lumpectomy then I was referred to Oncology at...
by admin | Jul 12, 2023 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
James was diagnosed with bowel cancer James is a retired gentleman in his early 60s living in Herefordshire. He was diagnosed with bowel cancer in September 2020 which in the end turned out to be quite a year for him. James had been made redundant the month before,...
