Donate 
Archive for category: Personal Stories
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...

01
October
2014

October – breast cancer month

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Each October we ask women across Northern Ireland to hold a fun Girls’ Night In with their friends to help raise funds for breast cancer research that we fund at Queen’s University Belfast. For more information and to get your Pink Party Pack call Cancer Focus NI on 028 9066 3281, email ...

22
September
2014

Karen reminds us to check our necks

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

To mark thyroid cancer awareness month, which runs in September, Karen Gribbon wants to help Cancer Focus NI raise the profile of the rare disease by telling her story. For signs and symptoms, and other links click here Karen Gribbon (40) and husband Conor (41) have three daughters, Rachel (10), Mol...