Meetings are relaxed and informal, giving everyone the opportunity to help each other through their own experience of cancer, as a family member, friend, patient, survivor or medical practitioner. Throughout the year there will be activities, speakers, discussions and informal chats, and most importantly whatever the members would like to add to the list.
The meetings are held in a small, friendly, independent gym, where the team are willing to support ToCTogether as much as possible. They have offered the opportunity to take part in a specially designed exercise class once a week, for anyone on chemo or recovering from cancer treatments.
No need to book a place for the Friday support group meetings, just come along and membership is free to everyone.
To find out more details contact ben.evans@topicofcancer.org.uk, or phone Ben on 07909 650336
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