GOSSIP meeting for cancer support group

YEOVIL District Hospital's GOSSIP Gynae-oncology Survivorship group will hear about genetics and gynaecological cancers when it meets on Monday (October 22).

The guest speaker will be genetics counsellor Margaret James.

The GOSSIP patient support group provides advice and information for women with gynaecological cancer. It was founded by the Gynaecological Cancer Specialist Nurses based in Yeovil and Taunton in partnership with women from across Somerset and Dorset who have had gynaecological cancers such as cancers of the ovary, womb, vulva or cervix.

Attending meetings enables patients, past and present, to meet with other women who have a similar diagnosis and may have had similar treatments.

Partners, family members and friends are welcome to go along as well. A specialist nurse is present at meetings and will be happy to answer questions and discuss concerns on a one-to-one basis.

The talk is being held in the Academy which is on level four of the hospital and is between 5pm and 6.30pm.

Please telephone Eileen Fort for further details on 01935-384454.

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