by Kate Robinson | Feb 28, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
I just can’t praise the service enough. John, who is 76, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2015 after experiencing symptoms he put down to “a bit of waterwork trouble and just old people’s problems”. Following a referral to a urologist by his GP, a PSA...
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 | Dec 5, 2023 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
The whole experience makes you feel valued. And that in itself makes you feel better. Emma Whitcombe was only 34 when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, 11 years ago. Living in Sutton, a small village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, she was initially...
by Kate Robinson | Jun 14, 2021 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
Cancer touches everyone and everything in your life, the ripple effect is tremendous. Sheenagh Stapleton was diagnosed with stage 4B Ovarian Cancer (the most advanced category for this type of cancer) in March 2017 she describes the impact cancer has across all...
