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Patients stories

Susan Rostron – Pancreatic NET

  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’. Another gastroscopy and a CT scan were done and I saw a consul …


Nick Inkpen – Pancreatic Cancer

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 receiving the news you seem to drift into a place of tota …


Gordon Garrett – Pancreatic Cancer

Gordon Garrett Patient Story   I was diagnosed with a bile duct tumour in June 2003, after showing signs of jaundice a week prior to an operation to straighten my nose after many years of rugby injuries. I was totally numbed initially, as it came …


Yvonne Sheppard – Pancreatic Cancer

  Chemotherapy and Whipple’s Surgery   When Yvonne Sheppard started feeling bloated and like she had constant indigestion, and regularly woke up with night sweats she was convinced she was going through ‘the change’. However when she started …


Stuart Wayment – Whipples

Stuart with Consultant Surgeon Arjun Takhar at the ‘Great Ferndown Firewalk’ which Stuart organised to raise funds for PLANETS   My story starts in August 2012. I went along to the blood donor’s suite in Poole to give a pint, something that I have …


Ralph Chesters – Oesophageal

  A happy outcome…. Life after an Ivor Lewis.  31 March 2018   In January 2011 I was “power walking” in Winchester and simply collapsed on the pavement, utterly short of breath. A kind passer-by called my wife and she took me to our GP.  Thei …


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