by Kate Robinson | Feb 28, 2024 | Kent, Patient Stories
…it is very sociable and relaxing on board Patricia Fuller’s cancer diagnosis came as a bolt out of the blue in August 2022. “For me it was just my annual blood test” explained Patricia, “then I received a phone call to say that my haemoglobin levels were low...
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 28, 2024 | Charity News
Gloucester Rugby’s Mark Atkinson announced as Hope for Tomorrow ambassador Gloucester Rugby and former England and Barbarians centre, Mark Atkinson, is adding Hope for Tomorrow ambassador to his list of achievements. As part of his new role, Mark will help to raise...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 22, 2024 | MCCU Staff Stories
Everyone involved in this is offering such a fantastic service. After 30 years as a London firefighter, Jack Russell didn’t take to retirement easily. He missed the camaraderie of working in a team, and he longed for the old feeling of going home each day knowing he...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 21, 2024 | Charity News
Thank you for raising £16,000! We are pleased to share that the second annual Cuppa for Cancer Care event has raised a fantastic £16,000 to date. An impressive figure which will help our mobile cancer care units treat more patients in more convenient locations. More...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 12, 2024 | Charity News
In a heart-warming display of support, members of the mobile cancer care unit team and the community at East Kent NHS Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, recently organized and held their own Cuppa for Cancer Care event in aid of raising funds for Hope for Tomorrow. We’re...
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...
