News
Music and dancing in Kent
Sandra Clarke and Theresa Teague (daughter-in-law of Valerie Teague, sadly missed member of the Ovacome committee) are holding an evening of tap and jazz dancing in aid of Ovacome.
The event will be at the Falconwood Community Centre in Welling, Kent, on 16th May and will include the music from Grease!
Tickets can be obtained from Sandra on 01322 359869. They look forward to seeing you.
BACUP changes its name
As of 5th January, BACUP has changed its name to CancerBACUP and is taking the opportunity to announce major new plans to take it into the millennium and beyond to meet the needs of people living with cancer. The charity is committed to supporting the government's recent investment in cancer services by making it easier for people diagnosed with cancer and those close to them to get the information and emotional support that they need alongside their medical care.
The following points give a brief outline of the new plans that the charity have recently unveiled:
On-the-spot easy access to information and emotional support: the charity is launching a series of centres (starting in the spring) throughout the UK to give people connected with cancer immediate and direct access to both medical and practical information, advice and counselling.
24-hour CancerBACUP: the charity's website already offers a great range of cancer information but will by 1999 become the first interactive cancer information service on the Internet. It will make it even easier for people to find out exactly what they need to know about any aspect of cancer. (Internet address: http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/).
Cancer Card: CancerBACUP will be the first to launch a card of this kind. It will be credit card size and will state the number to call to gain information. Cards will be available shortly through GP surgeries.
CancerBACUP
3 Bath Place
Rivington Street
London EC1R 3JR
(0171) 613 2121
30 Bell Street
Glasgow
G1 1LG
(0800) 181199
Ovacome Ovarian Cancer Resource Centre,
Royal Marsden Hospital, London
How to get there
As some may already know, a special display of leaflets and fact sheets on ovarian cancer was dedicated at the Royal Marsden back in September. For those of you who want to visit it (or already tried to, but couldn't find it), please note its location: from the main entrance on the Fulham Road, it is in the Out-Patient Department, which is located on the first floor of the Wallace Wing of the hospital. Once in the Out-Patient Department, ask for the Patient Information Room - which is just behind the reception desk where people check in for their appointments.
Please be aware that the Patient Information Room is used quite a bit - by individual patients who want to do some reading in privacy and may close the door, or by hospital staff for one-to-one consultations with some patients. So this room, on rare occasions, may not be available just at the moment you stop by. But we're told this is not a frequent problem.
The Marsden is also trying to put up extra signs leading the way to the Out-Patient Department, so hopefully that will help the situation as well. Also, a permanent staff nurse is scheduled to be posted full-time to this area, so she may be of further help in finding what you need.
