
Support & support groups
- Age at interview:
- 66
- Sex:
- Male
- Background:
- David is a retired company director. He is married with two grown up children. Ethnic background/nationality: White British
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Cissie is a voluntary worker and lives with her parents. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish
- Age at interview:
- 45
- Sex:
- Male
- Background:
- JP works in property, he is married with one daughter. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish
- Age at interview:
- 38
- Sex:
- Male
- Background:
- Sam is an actor. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish.
- Age at interview:
- 48
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Sara is married and has several children aged between 11-26 years. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish White
- Age at interview:
- 39
- Sex:
- Male
- Age at diagnosis:
- 16
- Background:
- M is married with one child and is self-employed. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish
- Sex:
- Male
- Age at diagnosis:
- 13
- Background:
- Gareth is a stand up comedian.
- Age at interview:
- 44
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Simone is a statistician, married and has two children. Ethnic background/nationality: White
Well I think the trouble with forums is, you’re not getting an expert’s response, you’re just getting other people’s views, and I think people have very different experiences and somebody may have found something they think is another lump and they might perhaps that’s it, they’re worried. Somebody else could just respond, “Oh yes, that happened to me. And yes, it was cancer.” Well I don’t think that’s going to help this person, because theirs might not be. This friend who had the lobular cancer, she had a mastectomy on one side, and she felt something in the other breast. And then there is definitely a mass there and she had to go and have that investigated, and thank goodness it turned out not to be cancer, but the last thing you want to be told is oh yes, that happened to me, and yes, it was. So, I think, they do have their benefits but you’ve got to be careful. I think sometimes you can come off the internet feeling worse then when you went on.
- Age at interview:
- 80
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Goldie is married, retired and had 3 children. Ethnic background/nationality: mother Russian/Lithuanian, father Russian/Scottish
It’s a one off payment, yes.
- Age at interview:
- 74
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Sylvia is a retired social worker. She is a widow and has had two children. Ethnic background/nationality: White British
- Age at interview:
- 34
- Sex:
- Male
- Background:
- Aaron and Rebecca are married with one child aged 5. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish.
Rebecca' Which is obviously much more obvious and much more serious in a lot of ways. It’s very complicated. And she, you know, we kind of talk together, because we’re both in a situation where unfortunately our children are not a hundred per cent, but you know, kind of we talk about things like the school, her daughter goes to the same school as [daughter’s name] does, so we talk about how the school cope with their conditions and what provision the school’s making for them. And she’s been very helpful and very supportive and, but equally it’s gone both ways. You know, she’s asked me questions and I’ve asked her questions and so that’s been very good.
- Age at interview:
- 44
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Simone is a statistician, married and has two children. Ethnic background/nationality: White
- Age at interview:
- 55
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 20
- Background:
- Harriet is a management consultant and is married. Ethnic background/nationality' Jewish/Russian/Polish
- Age at interview:
- 48
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Karen is a barber. She is divorced and has 2 grown up children. Ethnic background/nationality: White Caucasian
Did you get any support from Chai Cancer Care?
- Age at interview:
- 41
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Michelle is a tutor and housewife. She is married and has 3 children. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish
Last reviewed September 2015.