Patients Stories

My story begins towards the end of 2020 when I started suffering from Acid Reflux. As my dad had died from stomach cancer, I went along to see my GP and following a Poo sample, which was clear, [...]

“In March 2020, my friend Sharon was rushed to hospital after experiencing severe pain. She underwent emergency surgery and was then diagnosed with bowel cancer. She had two years of [...]

“Following a few tough years and the devastating loss of my father to cancer in 2020, I could feel my own health deteriorating but had put it down to perhaps stress-related IBS. I found [...]

“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 [...]

I grew up and lived by the sea in East Kent, which I loved. My NET story begins, as for many others, with awful diarrhoea for many years. Visits to GPs always resulted in an IBS diagnosis and a [...]

In 2021, I got a call about a lung screening program for ex-smokers. The questions soon established that, as a teenager (who smoked a little in a failed attempt to look cool), I was not going to [...]

  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 [...]