Aug 7, 2026 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
Legal secretary Sheran Moye was feeling fit and well and symptom-free when she went for a routine mammogram. She says when her results came through the post, she knew by the size of the envelope that it contained bad news. Sheran has recently finished her last...
Aug 7, 2026 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
At the age of 48, Claire Melton was too young to be called for the national breast screening programme, so when she found a tiny lump, she was certain it was nothing to worry about. But after visiting her GP and being fast-tracked to hospital, she was given the...
Aug 6, 2026 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
Sian Limpenny was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February and is undergoing treatment at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. Initially, she was making the 80-minute round trip three or four times each cycle. She was then offered the chance to attend Hope for...
Jun 26, 2026 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
Paul lives near Loddon in Norfolk and began his chemotherapy at the Weybourne Unit at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. After his first cycle, he was offered the chance to continue his cancer care on his local mobile cancer care unit, which visits a nnearby...
Aug 22, 2025 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
I think the mobile treatment unit is just brilliant. Sophie Shaw says that when she used to attend the mobile cancer care unit near her home outside Norwich it felt like she was going to hang out with some good mates. “I was always greeted like I was an old friend....
Jul 25, 2025 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
Hope for Tomorrow is a fantastic charity Ian McIntosh initially put his back pain down to a bit of hard labour after he had helped a friend dig in some fence posts in rural Norfolk. “I had been using a very heavy hammer and just assumed I had pulled a muscle and it...
