Olivia was a normal teenager before she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma after she experienced swelling in her leg. Olivia takes us through her chemotherapy experiences and about her amputation of her leg.
Films Tagged: Hair Loss (85 films)
Filmed as part of the After Cancer Treatment…So What Now? series, here we meet Gemma who talks about her cancer and how she copes with her diagnosis of a brain tumour in her daily life.
Chatting with Gemma – Talking Cancer
We hear about three major body image issues during this film. Rhiannon talks about how she loved her long hair before treatment and how she shaved it off to prevent it from falling out in clumps. Rhiannon also talks about […]
Body Image
Vicki was diagnosed with Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer in November 2012 after initially being treated for irritable bowel syndrome. Vicki talks about the hardest part of her treatment which was having to deal with hair loss, as well as talking […]
Vicki Lunn – Me & My Story
Daniel takes us through the days post transplant. Things are going well as the bloods are dropping as expected, but the side effects of neutropenia are starting to kick in. The isolation is taking its toll but Daniel is keeping […]
The Bone Marrow Transplant – Part Four
Sarah was pregnant with her third child when she discovered that she had Leukaemia. Sarah talks about having to start chemotherapy just days after her daughter was born. Sarah explains how her cancer diagnosis impacted her and her children as […]
Meet Sarah Hickingbotham
Lindsay Wilson and Tom Green discuss the important topic of body image before, during and after cancer treatment.
FYSOT ’13 – Body Image
Regular to jimmyteens.tv Katie but first time speaker at Find Your Sense of Tumour talks about her cancer diagnosis of Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia.
FYSOT ’13 – The Journey of a 20 something year old with old man’s Leukaemia
Footage taken from this years One Week In Cancer filming project where we asked young people with cancer to film their week. Here is 15 year old Lily who is currently receiving treatment at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Lily talks about […]
My Cancer Blog – Part One
Before Nathan was diagnosed with Burkitt’s Lymphoma he had been studying overseas and having the time of his life in Canada and Germany. When Nathan came back to Australia he started experiencing tiredness and after numerous appointments, blood tests and […]
Nathan Pember
Jana explains why it was so important to her to film her entire cancer experience and how the footage is proving a real memory for her and her family to look back on and remember those challenging times. Jana also […]
Jana
Alex was preparing for his GCSEs when he first noticed something wasn’t right, eventually Alex was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) here we hear from Alex who shares his story about how he coped with cancer and the treatment. Our […]