Regular to jimmyteens.tv Katie but first time speaker at Find Your Sense of Tumour talks about her cancer diagnosis of Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia.
Films Tagged: Blood Tests (30 films)
Teenage Cancer Trust’s Nigel Revell interviews Joe Twyman who was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, Joe received intensive chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant at UCLH. Joe talks about how he’s now a racing car driver and talks about life after […]
FYSOT ’13 – Living In The Fast Lane
After experiencing a sore shoulder and tiredness Mungo was referred for various tests. After an MRI showed that Mungo had cancer but it took a few biopsies to determine which kind of cancer. Mungo explains how it took a long […]
Mungo vs Cancer
Shahn was a typical normal 19 year old student who went to her GP after developing a rash, Shahn had a blood test to make sure everything was normal but the next day her GP rang to request further testing […]
Shahn’s Story
Nineteen year old Clare was diagnosed whilst studying at Hull university. After numerous blood tests and various GP appointments later, Clare ended up in hospital where her condition was described to her as life threatening and Doctors were unsure exactly […]
Keep On Moving
A revealing film on the important topic that is late diagnosis, young people share their experience on how doctors continued to miss their symptoms and how these impacted on their daily lives.
Late Diagnosis
Diagnosed with Leukaemia, here we meet Katie, alongside her parents, Paula and Kevin and younger brother Milo. Discussing the initial shock of discovering Katie’s diagnosis, her family provide an insight into the first few weeks of being in hospital and […]
Introducing The Ruanes: Part 1
A quick catch up with Katie, who seems to have turned into a tour guide, firstly we get a tour of her work and see the all important coffee machine, life can’t be bad for a private PA like Katie! […]
Katie’s Blog 5
Diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia in March 2009, Jen who is now in remission takes us through the days running up to her diagnosis. The only thing Jen was ever ill with before her diagnosis was a cold, so when […]
The Story of Jen McHugh – Pre-treatment
Time for the second instalment of Katie’s blogs. Katie talks of how her parents reacted to the news of her diagnosis and how she told her Mother over the phone whilst she was in the middle of a supermarket. Katie […]
Katie’s Blog 2
Here we are introduced to 25 year old Katie who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia three and a half years ago. Before diagnosis Katie was just your typical student – working hard, partying hard until March 2006 when Katie […]
Katie’s Blog 1
When she was 21, Jennifer was treated in a single room on an adult haematology ward with lots of support from the staff.