NCA Lunch and Learn | Cancer and the Menopause
Many patients experience menopausal symptoms during or after cancer treatment. Just because they have, or have had cancer, does not mean they need to put up with these symptoms. In this session Dr Charlotte Gooding covers how to manage menopausal symptoms, giving…
Let me introduce Kelly McKie
Kelly has put this video together to explain her cervical cancer story. She talks about her diagnosis and the fact that some HPV,s are not screened. In Kelly’s case, its the HPV73 strain.Kelly’s cervical cancer has sadly spread but she bravely made this video as she…
Men Can Get Breast Cancer Too!
Meet Alan – Kelly and Tori met Alan when attending the Thornaby Pavilion ‘Warm welcome’. In March. He told them about his Brother and Sister who had both passed away in 2006 with breast cancer and was asking what (if any) progress has been made on promoting this…
Mike’s Story
In 2015 I was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate and a PSA of 8. An MRI scan followed and subsequently a general anaesthetic and a trans rectal biopsy at the Freeman Hospital. Twelve biopsies were taken which resulted in a serious bleed and a prolonged hospital stay….
Karen’s Story
My story begins when I was thirteen, the start of my periods and my journey with endometriosis. In the 1970’s treatment for period problems tended to revolve around the pill and painkillers. Danazol was a particularly nasty pill I was given. Miraculously my…
Prostate Cancer – 150 men “dying to know “
Prostate Cancer – 150 men “dying to know “if they have a prostate cancer per year. Around 75 men per year die, directly at the hands of the NHS to be told that they do not have a prostate cancer but there is nothing the NHS can do to save their lives because of a…
Osteosarcoma – Janet’s Story
Sept 2018 I wake,unable to move the pain was excruciating.An ambulance arrives andforty mins later after getting down stairs, with two paramedics and gas and air my journey to A & E begins. I’m taken into a room with a Dr and given Morphine and sent home. As time…
My Name Is Sarah Harrison
My Name Is Sarah Harrison and I was initially diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the age of 35 in 2016. I went through 7 months of pretty gruelling treatment, and thankfully, I went into remission. This lasted until the beginning of 2019 when I found out that the cancer…
Twenty-Six Years
I’d lived with her for twenty-six years. She originally came from South Wales, but when I first met her she was living in West London. We fell in love and she came up to be with me in the North East of England. A Geordie by naturalisation! She left grown-up kids back…
My journey started when….
My journey started when I was referred to my GP for pain in my wrist which I believed was carpel tunnel syndrome. I had an MRI Scan for a non-related issue in May 2021 which identified a non-related ‘growth’ on my thyroid. I had a referral to thyroid specialist…