Cornwall's mobile chemotherapy unit known as Dorothy, will be parked up at Tesco in Helston on Wednesday, October 14, to give people the chance to see what the facility has to offer.
Hope for Tomorrow’s Mobile Chemotherapy Units (MCUs) have saved cancer patients over 125,000 hours of travel and waiting times, since the first unit launched in Gloucestershire in 2007. The cancer charity launched its ninth unit in Cornwall in May, bringing cancer treatment closer to home for patients throughout the county.
To mark Chemotherapy in the Community Week, the Cornwall MCU will be parked up at one of the sites it visits on a weekly basis - Tesco in Helston. Visitors will be able to step on board and discover how these units drastically reduce the stress of driving long distances for appointments, and waiting times, for chemotherapy treatment for both cancer patients and their loved ones.
Chemotherapy in the Community Week is the charity’s annual awareness campaign to highlight the benefits that MCUs bring to patients undergoing treatment, allowing people to focus on their life outside of cancer. With a series of events being held by our NHS partners and supporters across the country, it is spreading the word about the benefits of its units and the mobile chemotherapy service.
Charity founder, Christine Mills, said: “All of us at Hope for Tomorrow are very happy and proud to be celebrating our second annual Chemotherapy in the Community Week. Helping to spread the word about what we do and how we do it is so important for the continued work of the charity. With fundraising and awareness events such as these, we will be able to continue to bring cancer treatment closer to patients’ homes.”
Charity ambassador, Sue Thomas added: "As someone who has faced cancer personally, and also as the wife of a beloved husband receiving this news, I know that the most important factor in our lives became time. By making treatment more locally accessible for cancer patients, Hope for Tomorrow provides the precious gift of extended time to be people, rather than patients."
Dorothy will be parked in the Tesco car park in Helston's Clodgey Lane from 10am until 3pm on Wednesday.
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