For some time now, I have been noticing how increasingly important the correct use of language is, within the healthcare sector. You will have seen a spectacular example of that in my recent post, ‘Why Cancer Language Really Matters.’ Interestingly,…
Nobody wants to join the Cancer Community but once a member, many of us have found and given support over the years. I’m fortunate and get to speak to people across the globe. It’s interesting to see how much we…
There is still so much to learn about how we communicate regarding cancer. A big part of my work is raising awareness of how common cancer actually is in our lives. How we must learn to adapt the way we…
It was a great pleasure to be interviewed recently by Dr Noma from PHD Hardtalk. A lot of interesting subjects came up in this podcast. For anyone interested you can watch part1 below.
The BBC is looking at cancer and delayed treatment times. Have you been, or are you currently waiting more than 2 months to start your cancer treatment? You would need to be filmed, and the programme will be broadcast next week. This will be…
To think I was worried about the lack of publicity for cancer, as the UK tears itself apart! Finally, it’s appearing again, but not in any positive way. How could it? Practically no attention paid to the disease for at…
This post was prompted by some quite acidic responses I saw on Twitter, to an account that uses humour frequently in their conversations. We are certainly living in crazy times. It is natural that a lot of anger and frustration…
Logic of course tells us that we should be doing more, by improving, and increasing our cancer screening programmes. If you are one of those many people whose life has been saved by early screening, you will of course be…
Back in 2007 when I started my own cancer journey, I was told to rest as much as I could, and exercise wasn’t mentioned until I went home from my transplant. How things have changed! We now rightly talk of…
Wherever you look there are problems in healthcare. It is difficult to isolate cancer from the failing system of course. My views have been consistent since I started writing. The cancer sector in it’s current form will never solve the…
Crazy as this sounds, but I am so grateful that my cancer journey started in 2007. Although much has changed since then, I believe that the risk to the patient is now worse. The state of healthcare anywhere in the…
After living fifteen years with my own cancer, including working twelve with everyone else’s too, I thought I might be unshockable. However the last few weeks have left me shaken emotionally. Firstly, one of our long-term friends was diagnosed with…
