A mother living with ovarian cancer is using her experiences with the illness to help hold a fundraising event for other sufferers.
Helping out - cancer victim Elaine Hemsworth, with friends Glenda Winter, Brenda Neal and Sylvia Harden, who are holding a fundraising morning. Picture: NICK OBANK 40705-1
Friends of Elaine Hemsworth have rallied to her call to stage a fundraising morning for the Helen Rollason Cancer Care Centre Appeal.
Mrs Hemsworth, of Narvik Close, Maldon, found out she had ovarian cancer in 2002 and had to under go a major operation, followed by chemotherapy.
But the cancer came back and she had to under go a second operation followed by more chemotherapy, which she finished last month.
Doctors have recently reported that the early indications are good.
She decided to raise money for Helen Rollason after attending the appeal's residential Live Well Experience in Ireland, a five-day residential programme for people and their supporters living with cancer.
Along with friends, Mrs Hemsworth, who has a grown-up son, will lay on a coffee morning complete with book stalls, cake and plant stalls, games for the children and people offering reflexology treatments, at Maldon town hall on February 26, from 10am to 1pm. Entry is free
Published Friday, January 28, 2005
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