Taken from footage filmed for jimmyteens.tv – One Week In Cancer. Wen had aplastic anaemia and had to have a bone marrow transplant back in 2010. Wen is back at home in Birmingham with the family and on the agenda […]
Films Tagged: Tiredness (81 films)
Katie should be doing some research but instead she’s giving us a quick update on what’s happening in the life of Katie. Good news her leukaemic rate has dropped again but Katie speaks about how she’s been feeling tired recently […]
Katie’s Blog 14
Michelle was diagnosed with AML (Acute Myeloid Leukaemia) back in July 2007 and since then has had two stem cell transplants. Michelle talks openly and honestly about the impact her diagnosis, treatment and transplants has had on not only her […]
The Impact of Bone Marrow Transplant on Sexuality
Time to meet 23 year old Gemma who was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year. At first Gemma found the news to be really scary and she thought she wouldn’t have anything to look forward to but after a […]
Cancer Can’t Stop Me
Natasha was misdiagnosed for nine months and put on numerous tablets for her headaches, sickness, tiredness and dramatic vision changes. Her GP put down her symptoms as stress as 16-year-old Natasha was studying for her GCSE’s at boarding school. After […]
Meet Natasha
SIC is going national! This is the second version of the cancer awareness film for young people to be used in schools, colleges and universities. It includes young people from all around the country. Please contact Lorraine Case (lorraine.case@christie.nhs.uk) or […]
Sometimes It’s Cancer 2
Filmed last year and it’s the first launch of The Jolly Olly (hurrah!) but a little scare of dripping coolant makes Olly investigate further… Few tweaks later and Jolly Olly has it’s first sail out! Afterwards Olly evaluates his first […]
The Jolly Olly Diaries Part 8
In this second instalment of Lucky Man, Will takes us through his radiotherapy treatment, speaking about how he thought he would just breeze through the three week treatment but it ended up being more mentally draining than he originally thought. […]
Lucky Man Part 2
Will was diagnosed at 24 years old with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma after months of doctors appointments and scans. Before diagnosis Will had been suffering with night sweats, sickness and a chronic cough but after an appointment with a heart specialist and […]
Lucky Man
Another open and honest film from Toni who talks about her low points of treatment – feeling alone, feeling like everyone was talking about her and feeling like a freak show as she was the only young person on an […]
Toni: Part 2
In this first of two parts, Katie shares her experience of education and how having cancer has impacted on her education, including dealing with side effects of treatment, the impact of being a year behind her friends and how her […]
Katie Talks Education: Part One
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.