The West Yorkshire and Harrogate (WYH) Cancer Alliance community patient panel, last met in person in March 2020 at John Lewis’s Community Hub in Leeds. It was very much business as usual, the meeting was well attended by patient members, who on the day engaged in an...
The term complementary therapy covers a wide range of health related practices, not taught at a conventional medical school, which are used alongside conventional cancer treatments. They are not given with the aim of curing disease but rather to support physical,...
I’m a monitored Cancer patient. Part of my monitoring is an Annual Mammogram. I was due to have it during the last week of March; but that was just as “Lockdown” was set in place. Quite a challenging time for all of us; my thoughts kept coming back to my cancelled...
Dear Friend I hope you are well and managing to enjoy the sunshine. I’m enjoying working from a sunny room at home with a sleeping dog gently snoring in the background. I’m in awe of those of you who are home schooling or with caring responsibilities or...
Let me introduce myself. My name is Zoe and I am a woman of many cancer hats. Teenage ovarian cancer survivor, single-mother breast cancer patient, co-founder and chair of Breast Friends York breast cancer support group, Trustee of Yorkshire Cancer Community and a...
