You may find that reading some of the stories and poems here helpful. They have all been written by people who have
been affected by cancer and most have been written by people who are or have, at some time, been involved with the South East Scotland Cancer Network (SCAN).
Stories
My Journey by Ellison Thompson - A breast cancer patient's experience. (PDF 68k)
Lucky to Get Pneumonia by Mollie Balfour - A secondary breast cancer patient's experience. (PDF 7k)
Getting Cancer: Some Observations by Sue MacDonald Armstong - A breast cancer patient's experience of radiotherapy. (PDF 7k)
Fear & Emotion by Pat Perry - A breast & colorectal cancer patient's experience. (PDF 9k)
From Near Death to a New Life by Ian Mallinson - A non-Hodgkins lymphoma patient's experience.
I'm Living not Dying by Ted Alger - A non-Hodgkins disease patient's experience. (PDF 10k)
My Story by Christopher Garner - A prostate cancer patient's experience. (PDF 53k)
My Cancer Journey by APJ - A testicular cancer patient's experience. (PDF 77k)
"I felt fine but I'm lucky to be alive" - Interview with Lord David Steel for the Telegraph (Reproduced with permission, copyright The Daily Telegraph 25/3/2003). (PDF 9k)
This is my Story by Irene - A lung cancer patient's experience. (PDF 9k)
My Ideal Cancer Doctor by Freddie Benson - A cancer patient's ideal. (PDF 8k)
Not so much Chemo Therapy but Laughter Therapy - A patient's experience of chemotherapy by the Rev Clifford Hughs (PDF, 10k)
Limericks and poems
A collection to make you laugh - Limericks by Rev Clifford Hughs (PDF, 17k)
Chemo and the Emerging Follicles by Angus D.H. Ogilvy (PDF, 11k)
Chemo and the Failing Follicles by Rev Clifford Hughs (PDF, 10k)
This is Bad Enough by Elspeth Murray (PDF, 14k)