We have taken guidance from several cancer charities called the ‘One Cancer Voice’ on the most common questions that people affected by cancer are asking about the coronavirus and you can read this information here .
Cancer clinical trials: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, some clinical trials for cancer patients may stop recruiting new patients for now. Your healthcare team will continue to support and monitor you if you are part of a clinical trial. Talk to your team if you have questions or concerns about a trial you are taking part in.
Please follow GOV.UK and the NHS website for the latest information about coronavirus, including ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading the virus.
For a useful link from the mental health charity Mind, regarding COVID-19 and your wellbeing, click here .
with rhw solicitors, Guildford. Supporters of Topic of Cancer.
With guest speakers to educate, inform and entertain, trips out to theatres and places of interest, it is a chance to have fun and be yourself.
Membership is free, with no booking required, and each group is organised by the local support group leader and members.
Their internationally acclaimed indagation and trials into immunotherapy, using live viruses and other approaches to improve treatments and therapies, have resulted in some ground-breaking advances.
Topic of Cancer is a registered charity in England and Wales, registered no. 1151079.
Patrons:
Nigel Lewis-Baker MBE (Honorary Life President) | Sir Paul Beresford MP | Michael Buerk | Michael Elwyn | Yvonne Hall | Martin O'Donnell | Glyn Powell-Evans | Colin Roy | Alison Steadman OBE
Trustees
Anne Powell-Evans (Acting-Chair) | | Sarah Bishop | Tony Chant | Alan Loryman (Treasurer) | Prof. Hardev Pandha | Edwin Schofield
On behalf of all the trustees, it is with the greatest sadness I have to inform you our dear friend and chairman of Topic of Cancer passed away on Thursday. This was sudden and unexpected, and our thoughts are with his wife Hazel, their sons, their family and friends.
Kim was a wonderful, highly intelligent and motivated individual, reflected in his work life on various continents, his love of scuba diving and of course his motorbikes. I first met Kim, as a patient, in 2013. His journey through the diagnosis of his cancer and how he dealt with it is beautifully and sensitively recounted in his book ‘A Meeting with Sharks and Cancer’. Kim’s approach was always to try and understand his cancer and never to linger on the negatives, quickly rationalise the treatment proposed and move on with life as normally as possible. His energy and enthusiasm was remarkable, despite side effects of medication, setting up his first aid training company and later the enormous and sustained contribution to our charity, eventually becoming our chair.
Kim was a true gentleman, a kind and considerate human being, a model patient and friend who will be missed very much.
Hardev Pandha
TOC Trustee and Professor on Medical Oncology, University of Surrey