Every year, National Cancer Survivor’s Day is observed on the first Sunday in June, and is dedicated to celebrating survivors and offering hope and inspiration to those who have been newly diagnosed.
Research and data collected by Macmillan Cancer support indicates that around 392,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer each year.
On Sunday June 2, we asked readers to share their journey or shout-out to someone they know who has coped with this life-changing illness.
Julie Clarke said: “It’s now 15 years since my bowel burst with a grade three tumor. This eventually went to my lung three years later. I’m still here, healthy and happy. There’s always hope. I must say the treatment I received way back then was and still is first rate.”
Dawn Littlehales replied, saying: “You are amazing.”
In their latest study, North West Cancer Research found Cumbria’s cancer incidence rate to be ‘significantly higher’ than the rest of the North West, recording cancer rates 12% higher than the rest of the region.
Janet Huitson said: “My husband didn't survive his lung and bowel cancer but received fantastic care from FGH and Preston. Good luck to everyone fighting it.”
Macmillan estimates there are more than 3 million people living with cancer in the UK, while around 167,000 people die from cancer in the UK each year, an average of 460 people every day.
The charity reports that, on average someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer at least every 90 seconds.
Thanks to the caring doctors and nurses at Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Marie Dickinson said she has survived bowel cancer and is now six years free of the illness.
Helen Jackson said she is a 40 year survivor of a Wilms tumor, which is a type of kidney cancer that most commonly affects young children.
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