At 21, Jordan Ramsay got the news that would change her life forever. The mysterious lump that she’d noticed behind her ear a few years earlier was thyroid cancer. “...
Cancer
21st November 2022
At 21, Jordan Ramsay got the news that would change her life forever. The mysterious lump that she’d noticed behind her ear a few years earlier was thyroid cancer. “Before my diagnosis, I didn’t know anyone my age who ...
11th October 2022
Anita Tucker was 31 with a one-year-old baby when medical technology flagged that she needed a pacemaker. A few years later, med tech came to her aid again, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now 46, Anita has not only been ...
30th November 2021
“When they came and told me it was pancreatic cancer, I thought that was the end,” says 60-year-old Robert Slaven from Scotland. But with an early diagnosis, made possible by medical technology, Robert is now looking forward to getting on ...
7th September 2021
When jewellery designer and lecturer Hannah Webb had a chest x-ray she thought nothing would come of it. Four years later, she recalls her diagnosis and journey to overcome non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “It was July 2017 and we were staying in a ...
15th February 2021
Several years ago, Natasha Penney shared the story of her toddler Sebastian, who was diagnosed with a rare form of bladder cancer at 18 months old. Now the six-year-old is thriving. To mark International Childhood Cancer Day, This Is MedTech decided ...
13th January 2021
Jo Taylor’s situation is something of a double-edged sword. She relies on continuous treatment for secondary breast cancer to maintain a good quality of life, but she doesn’t want that treatment to take over her life. “I was ...
6th October 2020
To shine a light on Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Karen Finn shares her story about the importance of breast screening. Last year, I was having some pain in my left breast and it felt like there were some physical changes, ...
4th February 2020
When Dave deBronkart had an x-ray for shoulder pain, he received some unexpected news. “The doctor said: ‘Your shoulder is going to be fine, but there’s something in your lung – we’re going to need to do a CT ...
20th November 2019
When Catherine Wines lost her appetite, she knew something wasn’t right. “Besides my appetite loss, which was very unusual for me, my urine and stools weren’t normal, so I went to the doctor,” she tells This Is MedTech. “...
24th October 2019
Sarah Thomas recently broke a world record by becoming the first person to swim the English Channel four times non-stop. What’s even more remarkable is that she did it just a year after completing life-saving treatment for an aggressive ...
26th March 2019
Every year, and across the continent, tens of thousands of European citizens older than 50, are invited to participate in a colorectal cancer screening programme. Unfortunately, only in Slovenia, the Netherlands and the Basque country, the vast majority of citizens participate ...
4th February 2019
When This Is MedTech interviewed Fabian Bolin as he was undergoing leukaemia treatment in 2015, we knew this guy was a force to be reckoned with. Now fully recovered, he wants to tackle the issue of mental health by creating the ...
24th January 2019
At age 29 and with no symptoms, cervical cancer was the last thing on Laura Flaherty’s mind, but she knew she was due for her regular screening. “I’d been given the ‘all clear’ after my last smear test three ...
23rd October 2018
No two women are the same, and neither are their breast cancers. Cutting-edge genomic tests can therefore be valuable tools for determining the best treatment for YOU. Christine S. from France tells her story about the test that helped her ...
8th June 2018
This blog is part of the Early Diagnosis campaign #BeFirst Early diagnosis and care can prevent illness from developing and slow disease progression. Lab tests, genetic tests, tests for chronic diseases and modern lab diagnostics can help facilitate earlier intervention ...
21st June 2017
Christine Raab (35) is a freelance make-up artist. In November 2014 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. This was followed by numerous examinations and an operation to remove the affected lymph nodes. After the subsequent chemotherapy, Christine developed a lymphoedema. Since then ...
9th February 2017
Shakardokht Jafari knew her father had leukemia. The young Afghan woman had flouted tradition by earning a radiology degree, and she recognized the symptoms. Afghanistan had no cancer treatment, though, and the closest help was in Pakistan. Traveling over mountains ...
28th October 2016
Pumpkin recipes and Halloween dress-ups are some definite signs that we are in October. Besides food and parties, October also touches on serious health issues through a series of health awareness campaigns including World Osteoporosis Day, World Mental Health Day ...
25th October 2016
“Our vision is to bridge the gap between cancer patients and the rest of society,” says Fabian Bolin, co-founder of WarOnCancer.com. A year after Fabian first shared his leukaemia story with This Is Medtech, the former Made in Chelsea ...
31st May 2016
Steve Woodford and his wife, Maria, were both super-fit skydiving instructors and outdoors adventurers. This is why they were shocked to learn in one terrible year that he had bile duct cancer and she had breast cancer. After a long ...
24th May 2016
Europe must make it easier to connect the dots between cancer patients’ health records. Information is power. But unless health information is recorded and shared, it is impossible for doctors to make informed decisions about patient care. There is a ...
28th April 2016
What happens when you’re a parent and you get a cancer diagnosis? Explaining it to the kids will probably be the hardest part of the journey. That was certainly the case for Katherine Simpson-Jacobs, who had to come to ...
5th April 2016
Felix Brown is a football-mad kid from Bournemouth who received some bad news in January. It was a terrible shock for his entire family but Felix has reacted with wit, positivity and valuable insights – becoming a social media superstar in ...
4th February 2016
For Sophie, New Year’s Eve was as much an “I don’t have cancer anymore” party as it was a celebration of her 18th birthday. To mark World Cancer Day, This Is Medtech shares Sophie’s tribute to 2016 and ...
3rd November 2015
Prostate cancer, hernias, multiple surgeries, and a stoma: Tony was alive, but his quality of life was suffering. That’s when his surgeon came to him with an idea. He would reconstruct Tony’s abdominal wall… using pig skin. Tony’...
14th October 2015
Bret was 17 when he found the lump. He checked again and it was still there. At first, it didn’t seem to make sense. Isn’t breast cancer a ‘women’s disease’? For many men who develop breast cancer, it ...
5th October 2015
This is the second part of an interview with Fabian Bolin, who happily agreed to inspire “This is Medtech” readers with his uplifting story about perseverance and the power of a positive attitude. You can read the first part of ...
23rd September 2015
This is the first part of our interview with Fabian Bolin, former Made In Chelsea actor, who happily agreed to inspire “This is Medtech” readers with his uplifting story about perseverance and the power of a positive attitude. “I’ve ...
2nd September 2015
Oncologists have to break bad news to patients and their families all the time. But last year, cancer doctor Lucinda Melcher found out what it’s like when that patient and family are your own. Lucinda’s husband Adam had ...
29th July 2015
For many women, the months leading up to your 40th birthday can bring on typical mid-life crisis anxieties: you’ve already peaked, you’re starting to look a bit frumpy, your bikini days are over. Karen also belonged to this ...
20th July 2015
It was a busy but exciting time. Eileen Casey's three kids were all in college and she was moving house. But when her doctor told her she had bone cancer, everything was turned upside down. Eileen embarked on a journey ...
12th May 2015
Instead of planning her daughter’s first birthday, Raakhee Mirchandani thought about her funeral. Satya, her cherub-cheeked 10-month-old, had just been diagnosed with cancer. Satya Devi Singh – whose name translates to “Truth Goddess Lion” – was a happy, calm baby. As ...
14th January 2015
Suppose you opened your postbox to find an empty plastic container and instructions on how to collect and post a sample of your stool to be screened for colon cancer. Would you casually precede to the bathroom and take care ...
8th October 2014
Nobody wants to hear their name or their loved one’s name mentioned in the same sentence as the “C” word. But let’s face it: it can happen to anybody and when it does, hearing the news that you ‒ ...
Colon cancer is the second leading causes of death from cancer in developed countries. In 2012 it accounted for nearly 700,000 deaths worldwide. Yet, in developed countries compliance with screening recommendations is low. In fact, the most effective screening method decreases the ...
7th October 2014
Why are some brain tumours more difficult to treat than others? And what if we could change that? Like other cancers, in the best case scenario, brain tumours are either zapped with chemotherapy or surgically removed. The problem is that ...
6th October 2014
From single-serve sachets of shampoo to micro-finance, industries of various sorts have adapted to the special needs of low-resource settings who usually live on less than $2.50 a day. Making shampoo affordable seems easy enough, but what about cancer screenings? Companies ...