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Kerry's Story
Kerry Doherty is 18 and lives in Aghalee. She has just passed her A-levels and is studying Law with Criminology at the University of...
Nov 28, 20224 min read
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Grainne's story
Grainne O’Neill, 30 from Armagh, has a Foundation and Honours Degree in Event Management and has subsequently trained as a Life and...
Nov 24, 20228 min read
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Rosie's Story
Rosie Strutt is 20-years-old. It was on her 16th birthday when her dad first went to hospital with symptoms of pancreatic cancer. She was...
Nov 23, 20224 min read
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Ellie’s Story
Ellie Irvine is the daughter of Kerry Irvine one of our founding members. To those of you who may not be familiar with us, we are a...
Nov 13, 20224 min read
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Eddie Carson's Story
Eddie Carson is 33-years-old and lives in Donaghadee. He works as a Vehicle Damage assessor in a Bodyshop in Bangor. He will be married...
Nov 11, 20226 min read
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Catherine's Story
It was Catherine Graham’s 25th birthday when her dad, Gerard gave her the devastating news, he had pancreatic cancer. As part of World...
Nov 8, 20225 min read
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My pancreatic cancer story: Claire
NIPANC supporter Claire Barnes who lost her best friend of 17-years Aundrea to pancreatic cancer talks about the courage with which her...
Nov 24, 20213 min read
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Our pancreatic cancer story: Olive & Gary
Olive Buckley was born in Dublin in 1961 but later moved to Belfast where she worked in the Ulster Hospital as a Biomedical Scientist....
Nov 23, 20217 min read
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My pancreatic cancer story: Brian
Powerful personal testimony from NIPANC Board Member and Senior Civil Servant Brian Grzymek about his wife Caroline’s pancreatic journey....
Nov 22, 20212 min read
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My pancreatic cancer story: Kerry
Kerry Irvine lost her husband Noel to pancreatic cancer in November 2011. He was only 54. In this short blog and accompanying video,...
Nov 17, 20214 min read
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My pancreatic cancer story: Susan
Susan Cooke - a founding member of NIPANC - lost her husband Colin (45) to pancreatic cancer in February 2013 just eleven weeks after he...
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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My Mum “Molly”
by Karen Martin Mum and I were the best of friends. Every Saturday was our shopping day, visiting different towns and villages locally....
Sep 30, 20214 min read
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Sean McBrien
On the August 3 2019, I was in the midst of a fitness event and had no idea that I was suffering from pancreatic cancer. I hadn't been...
Apr 27, 20211 min read
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Liz Irwin
Mum was a fit, healthy 59 year old woman who treated her body as a temple and was full of energy and life. She had no long term illnesses...
Apr 27, 20212 min read
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