Archive for category: Personal Stories
01
October
2014

October – breast cancer month

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

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...

17
June
2014

Equal Access Campaign

We called on you to pledge your support for our campaign for Equal Access to life-prolonging cancer drugs for patients in Northern Ireland. More than 70,000 local people responded and pledged their support on line or in writing. We’d like to thank everyone who helped in any way with this campa...