All Countries, UK, Volunteering
I’m tremendously grateful that my first experience of the charity and online community of Pseudomyxoma Survivor was with a most wonderful volunteer. It was nine months following a pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) diagnosis and six months following surgery. In those...
All Countries, coronavirus, COVID-19
It’s been a long lockdown and we hope you’ve seen some of the sunshine over the last couple weeks. Lockdowns across the world have been easing and we hope you’ve managed to at least get in the garden if you have one. As garden centres are opening up in the UK and...
All Countries, Coping with PMP, coronavirus, COVID-19, In the News
We hope you’ve been keeping well in lockdown. This is a difficult time for everyone, especially for those of us living with or affected by pseudomyxoma peritonei and other cancers of the appendix. Our online community and Buddies system continue to provide forums of...
All Countries, Country, Diagnosis, Patient Advocacy
Through Cancer 52, Pseudomyxoma Survivor has received a special invitation to view a multi-disciplinary diagnostic centre (MDC) in action. MDCs are being trialled here in the UK and they are set up so that patients who present with non-specific symptoms can go to a...
All Countries, In Remembrance, UK
Liam Clarke is a much-missed member of our PMP family and Kathy continues to support us even as she deals with her own loss. Susan and I had the privilege of meeting them both in Belfast last year and were both impressed then by the courage and grace with which he...
