Patients Stories

“I retired at the end of 2018 after many years of a demanding career in the City of London. With David, my partner, we looked forward to our next 20 or so years enjoying our recently built [...]

Sharon Applin, was diagnosed with a skin cancer in 2020 which was initially treated successfully with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, by the start of 2022 she began feeling unwell with [...]

  In the summer of 2008 I gave birth to my beautiful baby boy, Hadley. Everything was perfect – but just 6 weeks after Hadley was born I started to get severe stomach pains and [...]

  Ruth Willrich was given a new lease of life after having 75% of her liver removed as part of her cancer treatment at Spire Southampton Hospital in 2010. Despite being told, aged 45, that [...]

For as long as I can remember, I have had what I was told was IBS. I seem to remember it becoming worse in my mid 20’s when I was at university studying for a degree. I saw my doctor who wasn’t [...]

  Sharon Angwin – My NETS Story Years ago, I began getting diarrhoea, I was referred to the hospital, had tests and they found I had a cyst, nothing to worry about. So I didn’t, it [...]

  I was diagnosed, aged 34, with Cancer back in 2005 whilst in the early stages of pregnancy presenting multiple secondary tumours in the liver and lymph glands. At the time there was a [...]

  I visited my GP in late March 2011 with a stomach upset that wouldn’t go away. I had a gastroscopy within a week. The GP thought I had stomach ulcer. The results were ‘inconclusive’. [...]

 “2 years ago I seemed to be fit and well and at 74  into my second year of full retirement. This changed suddenly when I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at which time I had no [...]

In April 2012 I was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.  This came as a massive shock, you really do feel suddenly that life could so easily be snatched away from you.  Those first few hours after [...]