A RENOWNED cancer treatment centre in Glasgow is to be the focus of a new documentary series.
The Beatson Cancer Care Centre in Gartnavel treats a population of almost three million people across the West of Scotland, from Lanarkshire to Ayrshire and includes the Western Isles.
And its new three-part series will tell the stories of those patients undergoing treatment at the Beatson, showing the work of the medical staff, and revealing how cancer care has improved in leaps and bounds in the past decade.
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Each programme focuses on a different cancer – breast, lung, and prostate - which are among the most common in the UK, and account for a large proportion of cancer deaths each year.
In the first episode the focus is on breast cancer and five women, whose cancers are at different stages, share their stories.
Among them is the 36-year-old mum and GP Louise who is receiving treatment for curable, early-stage breast cancer.
She has radiotherapy and chemotherapy, both of which have become more effective and less debilitating over the past ten years.
But the fact that doctors have recommended she doesn’t have surgery to remove the cancer leaves her worried that it might come back.
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While the programme also follows 50-year-old Jeanine who does have a mastectomy and combined reconstruction, to show how surgery is advancing, as well as Jasmin, who has a rare incurable cancer, but who is able to live life mostly as she wants, thanks to advances in cancer drugs.
To find out more about these women's stories, catch The Cancer Hospital on BBC1 at 9pm on April 25.
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