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Other Support Groups
"A cancer support group is not a gloomy introspective place. Nor is it a haven for witchdoctors and food freaks. Mostly they are efficient,
cheerful and unselfpitying. There is laughter and honesty."
New Approaches to Cancer (introductory leaflet)
TACT (Talking and Caring Together)
Ovarian Cancer Support Group
The Professional Development Centre
Park Centre
Park Road
Hindley
WN2 3RY
Telephone: 01942 227022, 01942 896236 or 0161 743 1014
Meetings held every last Wednesday in the month from 7 to 9 pm. Family and friends welcome.
Horsham Support Group
Methodist Church Hall
London Road
Horsham
Surrey
Telephone: 01403 260861, 01403 262658 or 01403 255645
Meetings are held on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 2.15 pm to 4.30 pm.
Internet communication
Susan Cataldo would like to correspond with other women who have had ovarian cancer and has asked me to inform you all of her e-mail address so that you can write to her. Her address is ratpup@ix.netcom.com.
Genetic testing centres
Following our article on familial ovarian cancer regarding genetic testing, from the summer newsletter, we are now including a list of participating centres. If you have queries about your eligibility for testing please call Diana Briscoe on 01223 330019, or write to her at CRC Research Nurse and Cambridge Study Coordinator, Box 238, Level 3, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ.
Professor Neva Haites, Dept of Medical Genetics, Medical School, Aberdeen
Dr David Goudie, Genetics Department, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Dr Rosemarie Davidson, Consultant in Medical Genetics, The Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow
Dr Mary Porteous, Clinical Genetics Service, Molecular Medicine Building, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Dr Jonathan Gray, Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff
Professor Norman Nevin, Dept of Medical Genetics, Belfast City Hospital
Dr Alan Fryer, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Countess of Chester Hospital,
Dr Ian Ellis, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital
Dr Gareth Evans, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, SM2 St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester
Dr Fiona Douglas, Locum Consultant Clinical Geneticist, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Dr Jacki Cook, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Centre for Human Genetics, Sheffield
Dr Carol Chu, Consultant in Cancer Genetics, St James Hospital, Leeds
Mr Ian Scott, Consultant Obstectician and Gynaecologist, Derby City General Hospital
Dr Richard Trembath, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Prof JA Raeburn, Centre for Medical Genetics, City Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham
Prof Eamon Maher, Department of Clinical Genetics, The Women’s Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Dr James Mackay, Consultant in Cancer Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
Dr Anneka Lucassen, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Dr Joan Patterson, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, The Kennedy-Galton Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow
Dr Vicky Murday, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London SW17
Dr Ian Jacobs, Consultant Gynae Oncologist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1
Dr Martin Gore, Consultant Cancer Physician, The Royal Marsden, London
Dr Shirley Hodgson, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Southeast Thames Regional Genetics Centre, London SE1
Mr Robert Fox, Consultant Gynaecologist, Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Somerset
Dr Peter Turnpenny, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter
Mr Gareth Beynon, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley
Dr Diana Eccles, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, The Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton
