Patient stories

Listen to a selection of local stories from patients talking about their cancer journey, sharing anecdotes from diagnosis and treatment, to telling family and loved ones.
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Amy Wilson, Macmillan Information & Support Manager hosts our cancer stories podcast, interviewing people who have had a cancer experience. The cancer stories podcast series aims to bring you local stories from local people in the Northern Trust, sharing anecdotes from diagnosis and treatment, to telling family and loved ones.
Provided by the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland, generously supported by funding from NHS Charities Together (https://nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/).
Feedback and suggestions would be very welcome via our short online survey, https://forms.office.com/e/i8ZGK9JPyF
In this episode we hear from Joanne who spoke at a Breast Cancer Health & Wellbeing event in front of a live audience in May 2025. Ashlene Alexander, the Oncology Nurse Practitioner asks Joanne questions about her journey with Breast cancer.

Collecting Sunflowers
Produced by Macmillan Cancer Support
Collecting Sunflowers is about the incredible health and care professionals people that supported me on my cancer journey, and my personal journey towards learning to live and think differently and advocating for my care.





