Charles Titmuss's Story
Charles Titmuss
Like many others, my initial experience of cancer was swift. I suffered from lymphoma on the bowel and was put straight into hospital at 9pm on a Friday night and by midnight I was being operated on.
A specialist told me I had a 50/50 chance of survival after my operation. I went on to have chemo and then radiation therapy, and luckily twenty years later I’m still here!
There are after effects of cancer that stay with patients every day, both physical and emotional. This is why it’s important to provide support for cancer sufferers in the long term. These quality of life issues are rarely acknowledged and I think it’s important to generate new treatment ideas in this area. Trials in particular can be helpful in contributing to better outcomes for cancer patients’ quality of life in the five to ten years after cancer.
Of course cancer changed my life. It really brought home my own sense of mortality and it makes you think that if your time comes, that’s it, but if we can help people overcome the cancer and particularly the after effects of cancer I think it will make a big difference.
There are after effects of cancer that stay with patients every day, both physical and emotional. This is why it’s important to provide support for cancer sufferers in the long term. These quality of life issues are rarely acknowledged and I think it’s important to generate new treatment ideas in this area. Trials in particular can be helpful in contributing to better outcomes for cancer patients’ quality of life in the five to ten years after cancer.
Of course cancer changed my life. It really brought home my own sense of mortality and it makes you think that if your time comes, that’s it, but if we can help people overcome the cancer and particularly the after effects of cancer I think it will make a big difference.