Donate 
Archive for category: Personal Stories
07
November
2014

How Sonia battled breast cancer

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Sonia Patton (46), from Bready, Strabane, is receiving treatment for breast cancer. She is married to Michael (47) and they have three daughters, Molly (16), Eve (6) and Alice (4). A volunteer with Cancer Focus NI, she held a Girls’ Night In and raised a bumper £3,018 for the vital breast cancer res...

05
November
2014

Tyrone cousins’ battle with breast cancer

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Tyrone cousins Yvonne Hendry and Therese O’Gorman, who’ve had double mastectomies, have helped Cancer Focus NI raise £500 for vital breast cancer research by holding a Girls’ Night In. Yvonne, from Sion Mills, and Therese, from Strabane, both opted to undergo the surgery after they discovered...

22
October
2014

Vera’s cancer story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Young-at-heart Vera Saunderson (72) lives in Carrickfergus. Vera was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2012 and is experiencing first-hand the inequality in accessing life-extending cancer drugs in Northern Ireland.  Vera, a widow with two children and four grandchildren, was faced with the dilemma of...

08
October
2014

Allister’s cancer story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Allister Murphy (57), from Newtownabbey, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2008 and has had first-hand experience of the inequality of access to cancer drugs in Northern Ireland. He says: “It was Christmas 2007 at an office party when I noticed a tiny speck of blood in my urine. Years p...

07
October
2014

John’s equal access story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer patient John McAllister (57), from Belfast, is delighted with the Cancer Focus NI campaign calling for equal access to cancer drugs for local patients. The father of five was told three-and-a-half years ago that he was seriously ill with cancer, yet, with the help of life-prolonging drugs, ha...