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For 29-year-old Jessamy Pearce it was a television show that reminded her to check her breasts. She found a lump and didn’t delay using her GP’s self-referral system to the team at Ipswich Hospital. Jessamy was seen within two weeks and it was confirmed the lump was cancerous. Treatment began which will include chemotherapy, surgery… Read more »
Ipswich Hospital’s brand new state-of-the-art Breast Care Centre has today (Thursday 5 January) welcomed its first patients. The breast screening team was the first to begin using the multi-million pound facility, with the clinics and imaging department moving in over the next few weeks. The centre will transform the experience which patients have when… Read more »
More than £33,000 has been raised towards a vital new Breast Care Centre after the sell-out success of a charity appeal. All 1,000 metal flowers created for the Blooms for Blossom Appeal were snapped up during October and November to raise money for a new centre at Ipswich Hospital. The appeal, by Colchester & Ipswich… Read more »
One thousand unique ‘flowers’ have been created as part of a special installation to help fund a new breast care centre in Ipswich. The beautiful Blooms for Blossom will be ‘planted’ at the front of Ipswich Hospital and each unique flower will be available to take home at the end of the display. Created by… Read more »
People living with cancer in Suffolk and Essex can access a wide range of local and national resources launched during the pandemic. Videos from cancer specialists, digital support groups and practical information can now be accessed through a wealth of online resources. The ESNEFT website has published a wide range of online information, and Ipswich’s John… Read more »
Plans behind a new £5.3million state-of-the-art Breast Care Centre at Ipswich Hospital are being shared this week. The new centre will transform the experience patients have when they come to hospital by bringing all elements of breast care under one roof – the clinic, the imaging department and breast screening. Consultant breast surgeon… Read more »
A research thesis written by a Colchester Hospital oncologist has been named as the University of Cambridge’s best-written clinical thesis. Dr M.B. Mukesh’s thesis on the advancement of radiotherapy in breast cancer patients, won the university’s Ralph Noble award for 2017/18. The 40,000-word document was researched and crafted over six years and his findings have… Read more »